Mapping Issue in Index setting up manual mapping

[Sergioc (sergio Cabrera)]

Hello, hope everybody is safe...

I have a logstash pipeline that sends data from a SQL database to elastic.
I have never configured mappings , I was letting elastic to set up the mapping for me.
but I have a field that is for Temperature that elastic was mapping the field as a long and in datatables I was missing the decimal points.
I was reading that I need to change the field to float.

So I create a new index, I have manually added a mapping for the fields, including the temperature as a float but when I'm sending the data from logstash I'm receiving this error.

Rejecting mapping update to [coronavirus] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type

I don't know what else to do.

Thank you in advance.

Yes, my index name is Coronavirus, it is from a screening tool that we have created in our company to save data of all persons visiting the building. and I have a small dashboard to show that data but the temperature was showing as Int in the tables.

[grumo35]

Hi,

Can you post the new mapping aswell as the existing one and how do you manage the mapping update ?

( need all the code you can provide to understand the problem )

First i recommand you to delete the index and create a new one with custom mapping BEFORE you start to fill it with data.

You can simply use the API and POST /_mapping
{ ## your mapping here ## }

[Sergioc (sergio Cabrera)]

Hello Sr,
Thank you for your help, the index was deleted and then i created the mapping manually and it works.
Thank you so much.