Set op_type to "index" filebeat / elastic-agent

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

Hi @beijo

See this rather detailed thread.

Filebeat and updating existing docs

Wow I spent a lot of time on this...I have a question into engineering... I have no problem getting the fingerprint to work on the initial index but I can not get it to update the document. I have a suspicion why, but I will wait. I tried everything I know including rarely used configurations I could not get it to work... Apologies about the difficulty I agree Filebeat / Elasticsearch is not working as documented described here So in the meantime if you want to set your own _id and update the…