Don't tell me nobody here ever made such a simple request?

On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 11:57:26 AM UTC+1, Aldian wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am using the usual ELK stack with the default template (
> http://pastebin.com/DtYiazVr 
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpastebin.com%2FDtYiazVr&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEIrorp9e9dSh98HTjQoPQoEor3Vg>).
>  
> In every log message, the date in stored in field named "log_date", which 
> the date filter converts in a "@timestamp". I want to set the "log_date" 
> field as "not_analyzed" so that I can sort it in Kibana without getting 
> weird results.
>
> I built the following query 
>
> curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_template/template_1 -d '
> {
>     "template" : "logstash-*",
>     "properties" : {
>         "log_date" : {
>                 "type" : "string",
>                 "index" : "not_analyzed"
>         }
>     }
> }
>
> Can you confirm that the request is correct? I have doubts about the 
> template name. I thought about calling url 
> localhost:9200/_template/logstash in order to modify the existing template 
> rather than creating a new one, but I am afraid of what could happen the 
> day I restart logstash, so my thinking is that if all works as intended, 
> both logstash default template and that one will apply.
>
> Also I believe that templates are only about future data. Is there any way 
> to retro apply it back on existing indexes?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Aldian
>

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