Elasticsearch: ‘ignore_malformed’, The Antidote for Mapping Exceptions
Ignore fields that are not compliant with index mappings and avoid dropping documents during ingestion with Elasticsearch.
How an almost unknown setting called ignore_malformed
can make the difference between dropping a document entirely because a single field is malformed or just ignoring that field and ingesting the document anyway.
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