# Templates to include settings **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 21, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435 "2013-01-21T09:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mohammady\_Mahdy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohammady_mahdy/32/2128_2.png) [@Mohammady\_Mahdy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohammady_Mahdy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435/1 "2013-01-21T09:08:56Z")
Hi, I have a working deployment using elasticsearch on a medium scale (500 million docs so far and growing), It's pretty much your standard log scenario so we opted for the index per day design. It works perfectly, we had a template that matches index names 'mylog\*' and it just had the correct mapping for every index. Only problem is when I started using a custom analyzers I couldn't get those to be set by the template (had a settings section, and upon creation I get the right mapping but not analyzers). I was wondering if someone can point me to how to do this. Is there a place where I can define my analyzers globally in file and just refer to them from the template instead of trying to define them everytime? -- ---
**Author:** ![radu\_gheorghe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/radu_gheorghe/32/556_2.png) [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435/2 "2013-01-21T14:55:12Z")
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Mo [mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com](mailto:mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a working deployment using elasticsearch on a medium scale (500 > million docs so far and growing), It's pretty much your standard log > scenario so we opted for the index per day design. It works perfectly, we > had a template that matches index names 'mylog\*' and it just had the > correct mapping for every index. Only problem is when I started using a > custom analyzers I couldn't get those to be set by the template (had a > settings section, and upon creation I get the right mapping but not > analyzers). I was wondering if someone can point me to how to do this. Is > there a place where I can define my analyzers globally in file and just > refer to them from the template instead of trying to define them everytime? > > -- -- [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene -- ---
**Author:** ![radu\_gheorghe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/radu_gheorghe/32/556_2.png) [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435/3 "2013-01-21T14:57:23Z")
Retry 🙂 OK, so I don't know of an option to do exactly what you want, but you can define multiple templates, and the new indices will try to merge those settings. So you can have a template that matches "\*" with your analyzer settings, and different templates with your other settings. ## Best regards, Radu [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Radu Gheorghe [radu.gheorghe@sematext.com](mailto:radu.gheorghe@sematext.com)wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Mo [mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com](mailto:mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a working deployment using elasticsearch on a medium scale (500 > > million docs so far and growing), It's pretty much your standard log > > scenario so we opted for the index per day design. It works perfectly, we > > had a template that matches index names 'mylog\*' and it just had the > > correct mapping for every index. Only problem is when I started using a > > custom analyzers I couldn't get those to be set by the template (had a > > settings section, and upon creation I get the right mapping but not > > analyzers). I was wondering if someone can point me to how to do this. Is > > there a place where I can define my analyzers globally in file and just > > refer to them from the template instead of trying to define them everytime? > > > > -- > > -- > [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) -- Elasticsearch -- Solr -- Lucene -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435/4 "2013-01-21T15:32:48Z")
You can define your custom analyzers in elasticsearch.yml and use them in any index. -- Ivan On Jan 21, 2013 1:09 AM, "Mo" [mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com](mailto:mohammady.mahdy@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a working deployment using elasticsearch on a medium scale (500 > million docs so far and growing), It's pretty much your standard log > scenario so we opted for the index per day design. It works perfectly, we > had a template that matches index names 'mylog\*' and it just had the > correct mapping for every index. Only problem is when I started using a > custom analyzers I couldn't get those to be set by the template (had a > settings section, and upon creation I get the right mapping but not > analyzers). I was wondering if someone can point me to how to do this. Is > there a place where I can define my analyzers globally in file and just > refer to them from the template instead of trying to define them everytime? > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/templates-to-include-settings/10435/5 "2017-07-06T02:55:25Z")