Hello. Here's the situation. A source shipping logs to our cluster has messed up and sent us a large number of documents containing undesirable fields. The thing is that the fields names are almost random, there is no way to list them all. There is a common pattern to all of them but also each of t…

Or if you can list up all the fields you need and set mappings for them, set dynamic: false on new index could be an option.

REINDEX : identify fields to remove with a regular expression?

TheEvilDonut (Luc Desaulniers) January 25, 2022, 12:14pm 8

Oh wait. I see what you mean here. Sorry my currently uncafeinated stated caused me to misread you post.

Will explore this option for sure.

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