It is possible to include a "date and time" field in a document that receives elasticsearch without it being previously defined. The date and time corresponds to the one received by the json to elasticsearch
This is the mapping:
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"entries":{"type": "nested"
}
}
}
}
Is it possible that it can be defined in the mapping field so that elasticsearch includes the current date automatically?
What you can do is to define an ingest pipeline to automatically add a date field when your document are indexed.
First, create a pipeline, like this (_ingest.timestamp is a built-in field that you can access):
PUT _ingest/pipeline/add-current-time
{
"description" : "automatically add the current time to the documents",
"processors" : [
{
"set" : {
"field": "@timestamp",
"value": "{{{_ingest.timestamp}}}"
}
}
]
}
Then when you index a new document, you need to reference the pipeline, like this:
PUT test-index/_doc/1?pipeline=add-current-time
{
"my_field": "test"
}
After indexing, the document would look like this:
GET test-index/_doc/1
=>
{
"@timestamp": "2020-08-12T15:48:00.000Z",
"my_field": "test"
}
UPDATE:
Since you're using index templates, it's even easier because you can define a default pipeline to be run for each indexed documents.
In your index templates, you need to add this to the index settings:
{
"order": 1,
"index_patterns": [
"attom"
],
"aliases": {},
"settings": {
"index": {
"number_of_shards": "5",
"number_of_replicas": "1",
"default_pipeline": "add-current-time" <--- add this
}
},
...
Then you can keep indexing documents without referencing the pipeline, it will be automatic.
"_ingest.timestamp" with "{{_ingest.timestamp}}"
"value": "{{{_ingest.timestamp}}}"
