Proactively Identify Field Type Conflicts

[ritchierich (Rich Horace)]

Kibana can report conflicts in the Management / Kibana / Index Management : All Field Types Dropdown.

Is there a way to identify conflicts with one Elasticsearch API, so I can monitor proactively?

Cheers,
Rich

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

My understanding is that Kibana can do it because it looks across multiple indices based on the input pattern.

If Elasticsearch receives a conflict into an existing index, it'll reject the doc.

[ritchierich (Rich Horace)]

Thanks for quick response! That makes sense.

So, ES Logs would be the best place to find conflicts.