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elasticsearch_v8

Publishes messages into an Elasticsearch index. If the index does not exist, this output creates it using dynamic mapping.

The elasticsearch_v8 output is based on the the go-elasticsearch/v8 library. For full information about breaking changes from previous versions, see Elastic’s Migrating to 8.0 guide.

To help configure your own elasticsearch_v8 output, this page includes example pipeline configurations.

Introduced in version 4.47.0.

Common
Advanced

output:
  label: ""
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: [] # No default (required)
    index: "" # No default (required)
    action: "" # No default (required)
    id: "" # No default (required)
    max_in_flight: 64
    api_key: ""
    batching:
      count: 0
      byte_size: 0
      period: ""
      check: ""

output:
  label: ""
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: [] # No default (required)
    index: "" # No default (required)
    action: "" # No default (required)
    id: "" # No default (required)
    pipeline: ""
    routing: ""
    retry_on_conflict: 0
    tls:
      enabled: false
      skip_cert_verify: false
      enable_renegotiation: false
      root_cas: ""
      root_cas_file: ""
      client_certs: []
    max_in_flight: 64
    api_key: ""
    basic_auth:
      enabled: false
      username: ""
      password: ""
    batching:
      count: 0
      byte_size: 0
      period: ""
      check: ""
      processors: [] # No default (optional)

Set values dynamically

You can use function interpolations to dynamically set values for the id and index fields, as well as other fields where function interpolations are supported. When message batches are sent, interpolations are performed per message.

Performance

For improved performance, this output sends:

Multiple messages in parallel. Adjust the max_in_flight field value to tune the maximum number of in-flight messages (or message batches).
Messages as batches. You can configure batches at both input and output level. For more information, see Message Batching.

Fields

`action`

The action to perform on each document. This field must resolve to one of the following action types: index, update, delete, create, or upsert.

For more information on how the update action works, see the Updating Documents example. For examples of how to use the create and upsert actions, see the Create Documents and Upserting Documents examples.

This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string

`api_key`

An API key to authenticate with. If set, it supersedes basic authentication.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Requires version 4.96.2 or later.

Type: string

Default: ""

`basic_auth`

Configure basic authentication credentials for connecting to Elasticsearch. When enabled, these credentials are sent with each request to authenticate with the cluster.

Type: object

`basic_auth.enabled`

Whether to send the username and password credentials with each request.

Type: bool

Default: false

`basic_auth.password`

A password to authenticate with.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

`basic_auth.username`

A username to authenticate as.

Type: string

Default: ""

`batching`

Configure a batching policy.

Type: object

# Examples:
batching:
  byte_size: 5000
  count: 0
  period: 1s

# ---

batching:
  count: 10
  period: 1s

# ---

batching:
  check: this.contains("END BATCH")
  count: 0
  period: 1m

`batching.byte_size`

The maximum total size (in bytes) that a batch can reach before it is flushed. When the combined size of all messages in the batch reaches or exceeds this limit, the batch is immediately sent to the next stage (such as a processor or output).

Set to 0 to disable size-based batching. When disabled, messages are flushed based on other conditions (such as count or period).

Type: int

Default: 0

`batching.check`

A Bloblang query that returns a boolean value indicating whether a message should end a batch.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
check: this.type == "end_of_transaction"

`batching.count`

The number of messages at which the batch is flushed. Set to 0 to disable count-based batching.

Type: int

Default: 0

`batching.period`

The length of time after which an incomplete batch is flushed regardless of its size. This field accepts Go duration format strings such as 100ms, 1s, or 5s. Supported time units are ns, us, ms, s, m, and h.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
period: 1s

# ---

period: 1m

# ---

period: 500ms

`batching.processors[]`

A list of processors to apply to a batch as it is flushed. This allows you to aggregate and archive the batch however you see fit. All resulting messages are flushed as a single batch, so splitting the batch into smaller batches with these processors has no effect.

Type: array<processor>

# Examples:
processors:
  - archive:
      format: concatenate


# ---

processors:
  - archive:
      format: lines


# ---

processors:
  - archive:
      format: json_array

`id`

The ID for indexed messages. Use function interpolations to dynamically create a unique ID for each message.

Type: string

# Examples:
id: ${!counter()}-${!timestamp_unix()}

`index`

The Elasticsearch index where messages are published.

This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string

`max_in_flight`

The maximum number of messages to have in flight at a given time. For outputs that send messages in batches, this limit applies to message batches. Increase this value to improve throughput.

Type: int

Default: 64

`pipeline`

The ID of an optional ingest pipeline to preprocess incoming documents before they are indexed.

This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string

Default: ""

`retry_on_conflict`

The number of times to retry an update operation when a version conflict occurs.

Type: int

Default: 0

`routing`

A custom routing value for each document, which determines the shard it is stored on. When empty, the document ID is used.

This field supports interpolation functions.

Type: string

Default: ""

`tls`

Configure Transport Layer Security (TLS) settings to secure network connections. This includes options for standard TLS as well as mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication where both client and server authenticate each other using certificates. Key configuration options include enabled to enable TLS, client_certs for mTLS authentication, root_cas/root_cas_file for custom certificate authorities, and skip_cert_verify for development environments.

Type: object

`tls.client_certs[]`

A list of client certificates for mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. Configure this field to enable mTLS, authenticating the client to the server with these certificates.

You must set tls.enabled: true for the client certificates to take effect.

Certificate pairing rules: For each certificate item, provide either:

Inline PEM data using both cert and key or
File paths using both cert_file and key_file.

Mixing inline and file-based values within the same item is not supported.

Type: array<object>

Default: []

# Examples:
client_certs:
  - cert: foo
    key: bar


# ---

client_certs:
  - cert_file: ./example.pem
    key_file: ./example.key

`tls.client_certs[].cert`

The plaintext certificate to use for TLS authentication. Must be paired with the corresponding private key in the key field when using inline PEM data for mTLS client certificates.

Type: string

Default: ""

`tls.client_certs[].cert_file`

The path to a file containing the certificate to use for TLS authentication. Must be paired with the corresponding private key file in the key_file field when using file-based configuration for mTLS client certificates.

Type: string

Default: ""

`tls.client_certs[].key`

Private key for mTLS client certificate as inline PEM data. Must correspond to the client certificate specified in the cert field. Use this field together with cert when providing certificate data inline rather than through files.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

`tls.client_certs[].key_file`

Path to private key file for mTLS client certificate in PEM format. Must correspond to the client certificate specified in the cert_file field. Use this field together with cert_file when loading certificate data from files.

Type: string

Default: ""

`tls.client_certs[].password`

The password to use for the private key (specified in the key or key_file fields), if it is password-protected. The PKCS#1 and PKCS#8 formats are supported. Supports environment variable interpolation for secure password management.

The pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm is obsolete and not supported for the PKCS#8 format. This algorithm does not authenticate the ciphertext, making it vulnerable to padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
password: foo

# ---

password: ${KEY_PASSWORD}

`tls.enable_renegotiation`

Whether to allow the remote server to repeatedly request renegotiation. Enable this option if you’re seeing the error message local error: tls: no renegotiation.

Type: bool

Default: false

`tls.enabled`

Whether to enable TLS for secure connections. Set to true to enable TLS encryption. Required to be true for other TLS options (like client_certs, root_cas, etc.) to take effect.

Type: bool

Default: false

`tls.root_cas`

Specify a root certificate authority to use (optional). This is a string that represents a certificate chain from the parent-trusted root certificate, through possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate. Use either this field for inline certificate data or root_cas_file for file-based certificate loading.

This field contains sensitive information that usually shouldn’t be added to a configuration directly. For more information, see Secrets.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
root_cas: |-
  -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
  ...
  -----END CERTIFICATE-----

`tls.root_cas_file`

Specify the path to a root certificate authority file (optional). This is a file, often with a .pem extension, which contains a certificate chain from the parent-trusted root certificate, through possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate. Use either this field for file-based certificate loading or root_cas for inline certificate data.

Type: string

Default: ""

# Examples:
root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem

`tls.skip_cert_verify`

Whether to skip server-side certificate verification. Set to true only for testing environments as this reduces security by disabling certificate validation. When using self-signed certificates or in development, this may be necessary, but should never be used in production. Consider using root_cas or root_cas_file to specify trusted certificates instead of disabling verification entirely.

Type: bool

Default: false

`urls[]`

A list of URLs to connect to. If an item in the list contains commas, it is split into multiple URLs.

Type: array<string>

# Examples:
urls:
  - "http://localhost:9200"

Example pipelines

Update documents
Index documents from Redpanda
Index documents from AWS S3

To update documents in the target index, the top level of the request body must include at least one of the following fields:

doc: Performs partial updates on a document.
upsert: Updates an existing document or inserts a document if it doesn’t exist.
script: Performs an update using a scripting language, such as Elasticsearch’s Painless scripting language.

The following examples show how to configure mapping processors with this output to achieve different types of updates.

Example 1: Partial document update

output:
  processors:
    # Sets the metadata ID field to the message ID then
    # performs a partial update on the document.
    - mapping: |
        meta id = this.id
        root.doc = this
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: [localhost:9200] # The URL of the Elasticsearch server.
    index: my_target_index # The name of the Elasticsearch index.
    id: ${! @id } # Sets the document ID to the value of the metadata ID field.
    action: update # The action to perform on each document.

Example 2: Scripted update

output:
  processors:
    # Sets the metadata ID field to the message ID then
    # increments the counter field by `1` using a script.
    - mapping: |
        meta id = this.id
        root.script.source = "ctx._source.counter += 1"
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: [localhost:9200] # The URL of the Elasticsearch server.
    index: my_target_index # The name of the Elasticsearch index.
    id: ${! @id } # Sets the document ID to the value of the metadata ID field.
    action: update # The action to perform on each document.

Example 3: Upsert

output:
  processors:
    # Sets the metadata ID field to the message ID.
    # If the product with the specified ID exists, update its product_price to 100.
    # If the document does not exist, insert a new document with the ID set to 1
    # and the `product_price` set to 50.
    - mapping: |
        meta id = this.id
        root.doc.product_price = 100
        root.upsert.product_price = 50
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: [localhost:9200] # The URL of the Elasticsearch server.
    index: my_target_index # The name of the Elasticsearch index.
    id: ${! @id } # Sets the document ID to the value of the metadata ID field.
    action: update # The action to perform on each document.

For more information on the structures and behaviors of doc, upsert, and script fields, see the Elasticsearch Update API.

Reads messages from a Redpanda cluster and writes them to an Elasticsearch index using a field from the message as the document ID.

# Reads messages from a Redpanda cluster.
input:
  redpanda:
    seed_brokers: [localhost:19092] # The address of the Redpanda broker.
    topics: ["product_code"] # The topic to consume messages from.
    consumer_group: "rpcn3" # The consumer group ID.
  processors:
    # Sets the metadata ID field to the message ID and
    # sets the root of the message to the message content.
    - mapping: |
        meta id = this.id
        root = this
# Writes messages to the specified Elasticsearch index.
output:
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: ['http://localhost:9200'] # The URL of the Elasticsearch server.
    index: "product_code" # The name of the Elasticsearch index.
    action: "index" # The action to perform on each document.
    id: ${! meta("id") } # Sets the document ID to the value of the metadata ID field.

Reads messages from a AWS S3 bucket and writes them to an Elasticsearch index using the S3 key as the ID for the Elasticsearch document.

# Reads messages from an AWS S3 bucket.
input:
  aws_s3:
    bucket: "my_bucket" # The name of the S3 bucket.
    prefix: "prod_inventory/" # A prefix to filter objects in the bucket.
    scanner:
      to_the_end: {} # Scans the bucket to the end.
# Writes messages to the specified Elasticsearch index.
output:
  elasticsearch_v8:
    urls: ['http://localhost:9200'] # The URL of the Elasticsearch server.
    index: "current_prod_inventory" # The name of the Elasticsearch index.
    action: "index" # The action to perform on each document.
    id: ${! meta("s3_key") } # Sets the document ID to the S3 key.

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elasticsearch_v8

Set values dynamically

Performance

Fields

action

api_key

basic_auth

basic_auth.enabled

basic_auth.password

basic_auth.username

batching

batching.byte_size

batching.check

batching.count

batching.period

batching.processors[]

id

index

max_in_flight

pipeline

retry_on_conflict

routing

tls

tls.client_certs[]

tls.client_certs[].cert

tls.client_certs[].cert_file

tls.client_certs[].key

tls.client_certs[].key_file

tls.client_certs[].password

tls.enable_renegotiation

tls.enabled

tls.root_cas

tls.root_cas_file

tls.skip_cert_verify

urls[]

Example pipelines

`action`

`api_key`

`basic_auth`

`basic_auth.enabled`

`basic_auth.password`

`basic_auth.username`

`batching`

`batching.byte_size`

`batching.check`

`batching.count`

`batching.period`

`batching.processors[]`

`id`

`index`

`max_in_flight`

`pipeline`

`retry_on_conflict`

`routing`

`tls`

`tls.client_certs[]`

`tls.client_certs[].cert`

`tls.client_certs[].cert_file`

`tls.client_certs[].key`

`tls.client_certs[].key_file`

`tls.client_certs[].password`

`tls.enable_renegotiation`

`tls.enabled`

`tls.root_cas`

`tls.root_cas_file`

`tls.skip_cert_verify`

`urls[]`