From the current mutate convert documentation : Valid conversion targets are: integer, float, string, and boolean. I expected to see the new-for-5.0 keyword and text types in that list. And perhaps a note about the string type being deprecated . I was about to create an issue for the logstash-fil…

You're conflating the types of fields in Logstash events with the mappings in Elasticsearch. They are entirely different things. You should think of Logstash events as JSON documents, and JSON values are either objects, arrays, strings, numbers, or booleans. How these values are mapped in Elasticsea…

Mutate filter plugin: convert to keyword and text?

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GrahamHannington (Graham Hannington) November 25, 2016, 8:21am 6

Done (thanks for the tip):

Kibana 5.0 shows field type as string, not keyword: working as designed?

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Mutate filter plugin: convert to keyword and text?

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