Keyword default size

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1

Hi,

As far as i know the keywords are created automatically with 256.
Problem is that when i do some group by term with that field some are missing because they are a bit above 256.

I can add the mapping with 300, but how to change the default?

I have in logstash:
index => "mylogs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

So every day a new index will be create, how to create that index already with 300?

Thanks,

2

@cjabrantes

As far as i know the keywords are created automatically with 256.

If the type of the field is keyword, you can specify ignore_above to not index values larger than N characters. If not specified N defaults to ~2Billion characters. But the keyword sub field of an analyzed field uses ignore_above 256 as default.

If the field is analyzed tokenizer can restrict tokens to max length. The StandardAnalyzer has max_token_length property that defaults to 255.

Problem is that when i do some group by term with that field some are missing because they are a bit above 256.

Can you post your index mapping and a query you are running?

3

Hi,

This is the mapping created for the field when logstash sends the date to elastic, i just send log.
"log" : {
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword",
"ignore_above" : 256
}
}
},

this is working as expected according to:


By default a string now is mapped to text and keyword, so the question is how to change the default size of the keyword, is that an option in elastic? or do i have to "explicitly say it" in logstash?

If in logstash what is the correct why of doing it? In mudate convert i dont see any keyword.

Thanks,

4

One way you can achieve this is by defining template for these indices. This example shows a single named field. You can use dynamic mapping for multiple (or all text) fields.

{
  "template": "mylogs-*",
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "log": {
        "type": "text",
        "fields": {
          "keyword": {
            "type": "keyword",
            "ignore_above": 300
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "aliases": {}
}
5

Nice, works as i pretend!

Thanks!