I need to convert a field to string so it does not create multiple fields and subfields in elasticsearch. Reason is I get logs from a source I can't control and they are in the format data: { 23423432_23434343: { ... } } data: { 450546540_3450345: { ... } } and thousands of that so I now have…

Object to string gets indexed as object in elasticsearch

derEremit (Sebastian Paul) September 25, 2016, 6:34pm 3

that worked, thanks

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