Solved: How to get JSON example from blog to work with new index (hint: format YML correctly!)

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Not sure if this is helpful, but doing a similar task via powershell was trivial. I switched to filebeat because it's nice to have those log files in case something breaks and I need to replay everything to build up the indexes again. Not criticizing filebeat here, I understand there are a LOT more features included such as backpressure, just trying to give an example of what I am trying to replicate.

$post_body = @{
    @timestamp = $deploy_time
    deploy_version = $deploy_version
    deploy_targetserver = $deploy_targetserver
    deploy_project = $deploy_project 
}

$json = $post_body | ConvertTo-Json

$elastic_server = 'http://myelasticserver:9200/octopus/_doc'
$body = $json

Write-Host $body
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $elastic_server -Method Post -Body $body -ContentType 'application/json'