You are using a deprecated config setting "document_type" set in elasticsearch

Hello All,

Fairly new to ELK stack I did encountered the following warning below during my setup.

/[WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] You are using a deprecated config setting "document_type" set in elasticsearch. Deprecated settings will continue to work, but are scheduled for removal from logstash in the future. Document types are being deprecated in Elasticsearch 6.0, and removed entirely in 7.0. You should avoid this feature If you have any questions about this, please visit the #logstash channel on freenode irc. {:name=>"document_type", :plugin=><LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch bulk_path=>"/_xpack/monitoring/_bulk?system_id=logstash&system_api_version=6&interval=1s", hosts=>[http://localhost:9200], sniffing=>false, manage_template=>false, id=>"aa9ca250418a0d4ca15e4f43714f32837666af91a6d80d8f12351a90b6be9d81", document_type=>"%{[@metadata][document_type]}", enable_metric=>true, codec=><LogStash::Codecs::Plain id=>"plain_993be7a6-e875-499f-93e7-aa84272d4faa", enable_metric=>true, charset=>"UTF-8">, workers=>1, template_name=>"logstash", template_overwrite=>false, doc_as_upsert=>false, script_type=>"inline", script_lang=>"painless", script_var_name=>"event", scripted_upsert=>false, retry_initial_interval=>2, retry_max_interval=>64, retry_on_conflict=>1, ilm_enabled=>false, ilm_rollover_alias=>"logstash", ilm_pattern=>"{now/d}-000001", ilm_policy=>"logstash-policy", action=>"index", ssl_certificate_verification=>true, sniffing_delay=>5, timeout=>60, pool_max=>1000, pool_max_per_route=>100, resurrect_delay=>5, validate_after_inactivity=>10000, http_compression=>false>}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,621][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>".monitoring-logstash", "pipeline.workers"=>1, "pipeline.batch.size"=>2, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,640][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>, :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,648][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,656][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,656][WARN ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the type event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,680][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["http://localhost:9200"]}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,728][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>".monitoring-logstash", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x1fdf29b6 sleep>"}
[2019-06-06T14:14:01,737][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Pipelines running {:count=>2, :running_pipelines=>[:synlite_snort, :".monitoring-logstash"], :non_running_pipelines=>}
[2019-06-06T14:14:02,134][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}/

Please let me know what particular changes do I need to make.

Thanks and cheers!

Remove document _type for logstash output config
Starting version 6, elasticsearch allow only 1 document _type per index, the default document _type used is _doc, so no need to use document _type in your logstash config

Exept that it doesn't use _doc when the document_type setting is removed, it uses doc - which is inconsistent with the type removal expectations.

Hei guys,
I am seeing similar warning in my logs:
You are using a deprecated config setting "document_type" set in elasticsearch. Deprecated settings will continue to work, but are scheduled for removal from logstash in the future. Document types are being deprecated in Elasticsearch 6.0, and removed entirely in 7.0. You should avoid this feature If you have any questions about this, please visit the #logstash channel on freenode irc. {:name=>"document_type", :plugin=><LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch bulk_path=>"/_monitoring/bulk?system_id=logstash&system_api_version=7&interval=1s"...

The logstash version is 7.1.1. It seems to related to monitoring pipeline as if I disable Xpack monitoring I don't see it at all.
Also searched in lib for the "document_type" and found it in these files:
x-pack/lib/template.cfg.erb
x-pack/lib/monitoring/inputs/metrics/stats_event_factory.rb
x-pack/lib/monitoring/inputs/metrics/state_event_factory.rb

also if I comment out the line document_type => "%{[@metadata][document_type]}" in the template file it also clears the logs.

Thx.

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