elasticsearch/docs/reference/ingest/ingest-node.asciidoc

[[pipeline]]
== Pipeline Definition

A pipeline is a definition of  a series of <<ingest-processors, processors>> that are to be executed
in the same order as they are declared. A pipeline consists of two main fields: a `description`
and a list of `processors`:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "...",
  "processors" : [ ... ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The `description` is a special field to store a helpful description of
what the pipeline does.

The `processors` parameter defines a list of processors to be executed in
order.

[[ingest-apis]]
== Ingest APIs

The following ingest APIs are available for managing pipelines:

* <<put-pipeline-api>> to add or update a pipeline
* <<get-pipeline-api>> to return a specific pipeline
* <<delete-pipeline-api>> to delete a pipeline
* <<simulate-pipeline-api>> to simulate a call to a pipeline

[[put-pipeline-api]]
=== Put Pipeline API

The put pipeline API adds pipelines and updates existing pipelines in the cluster.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
{
  "description" : "describe pipeline",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "set" : {
        "field": "foo",
        "value": "bar"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

NOTE: The put pipeline API also instructs all ingest nodes to reload their in-memory representation of pipelines, so that
      pipeline changes take effect immediately.

[[get-pipeline-api]]
=== Get Pipeline API

The get pipeline API returns pipelines based on ID. This API always returns a local reference of the pipeline.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

Example response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "my-pipeline-id" : {
    "description" : "describe pipeline",
    "processors" : [
      {
        "set" : {
          "field" : "foo",
          "value" : "bar"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE

For each returned pipeline, the source and the version are returned.
The version is useful for knowing which version of the pipeline the node has.
You can specify multiple IDs to return more than one pipeline. Wildcards are also supported.

[float]
[[versioning-pipelines]]
==== Pipeline Versioning

Pipelines can optionally add a `version` number, which can be any integer value,
in order to simplify pipeline management by external systems. The `version`
field is completely optional and it is meant solely for external management of
pipelines. To unset a `version`, simply replace the pipeline without specifying
one.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
{
  "description" : "describe pipeline",
  "version" : 123,
  "processors" : [
    {
      "set" : {
        "field": "foo",
        "value": "bar"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

To check for the `version`, you can
<<common-options-response-filtering, filter responses>>
using `filter_path` to limit the response to just the `version`:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET /_ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id?filter_path=*.version
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

This should give a small response that makes it both easy and inexpensive to parse:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "my-pipeline-id" : {
    "version" : 123
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE

[[delete-pipeline-api]]
=== Delete Pipeline API

The delete pipeline API deletes pipelines by ID or wildcard match (`my-*`, `*`).

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
DELETE _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

////
Hidden setup for wildcard test:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/wild-one
{
  "description" : "first pipeline to be wildcard deleted",
  "processors" : [ ]
}

PUT _ingest/pipeline/wild-two
{
  "description" : "second pipeline to be wildcard deleted",
  "processors" : [ ]
}

DELETE _ingest/pipeline/*
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

Hidden expected response:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"acknowledged": true
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE
////

[[simulate-pipeline-api]]
=== Simulate Pipeline API

The simulate pipeline API executes a specific pipeline against
the set of documents provided in the body of the request.

You can either specify an existing pipeline to execute
against the provided documents, or supply a pipeline definition in
the body of the request.

Here is the structure of a simulate request with a pipeline definition provided
in the body of the request:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline" : {
    // pipeline definition here
  },
  "docs" : [
    { "_source": {/** first document **/} },
    { "_source": {/** second document **/} },
    // ...
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Here is the structure of a simulate request against an existing pipeline:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/my-pipeline-id/_simulate
{
  "docs" : [
    { "_source": {/** first document **/} },
    { "_source": {/** second document **/} },
    // ...
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Here is an example of a simulate request with a pipeline defined in the request
and its response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline" :
  {
    "description": "_description",
    "processors": [
      {
        "set" : {
          "field" : "field2",
          "value" : "_value"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "docs": [
    {
      "_index": "index",
      "_type": "_doc",
      "_id": "id",
      "_source": {
        "foo": "bar"
      }
    },
    {
      "_index": "index",
      "_type": "_doc",
      "_id": "id",
      "_source": {
        "foo": "rab"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

Response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
   "docs": [
      {
         "doc": {
            "_id": "id",
            "_index": "index",
            "_type": "_doc",
            "_source": {
               "field2": "_value",
               "foo": "bar"
            },
            "_ingest": {
               "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:30:03.187Z"
            }
         }
      },
      {
         "doc": {
            "_id": "id",
            "_index": "index",
            "_type": "_doc",
            "_source": {
               "field2": "_value",
               "foo": "rab"
            },
            "_ingest": {
               "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:30:03.188Z"
            }
         }
      }
   ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:30:03.187Z"/$body.docs.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:30:03.188Z"/$body.docs.1.doc._ingest.timestamp/]

[[ingest-verbose-param]]
==== Viewing Verbose Results
You can use the simulate pipeline API to see how each processor affects the ingest document
as it passes through the pipeline. To see the intermediate results of
each processor in the simulate request, you can add the `verbose` parameter
to the request.

Here is an example of a verbose request and its response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate?verbose
{
  "pipeline" :
  {
    "description": "_description",
    "processors": [
      {
        "set" : {
          "field" : "field2",
          "value" : "_value2"
        }
      },
      {
        "set" : {
          "field" : "field3",
          "value" : "_value3"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "docs": [
    {
      "_index": "index",
      "_type": "_doc",
      "_id": "id",
      "_source": {
        "foo": "bar"
      }
    },
    {
      "_index": "index",
      "_type": "_doc",
      "_id": "id",
      "_source": {
        "foo": "rab"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

Response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
   "docs": [
      {
         "processor_results": [
            {
               "doc": {
                  "_id": "id",
                  "_index": "index",
                  "_type": "_doc",
                  "_source": {
                     "field2": "_value2",
                     "foo": "bar"
                  },
                  "_ingest": {
                     "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:46:09.674Z"
                  }
               }
            },
            {
               "doc": {
                  "_id": "id",
                  "_index": "index",
                  "_type": "_doc",
                  "_source": {
                     "field3": "_value3",
                     "field2": "_value2",
                     "foo": "bar"
                  },
                  "_ingest": {
                     "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:46:09.675Z"
                  }
               }
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "processor_results": [
            {
               "doc": {
                  "_id": "id",
                  "_index": "index",
                  "_type": "_doc",
                  "_source": {
                     "field2": "_value2",
                     "foo": "rab"
                  },
                  "_ingest": {
                     "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:46:09.676Z"
                  }
               }
            },
            {
               "doc": {
                  "_id": "id",
                  "_index": "index",
                  "_type": "_doc",
                  "_source": {
                     "field3": "_value3",
                     "field2": "_value2",
                     "foo": "rab"
                  },
                  "_ingest": {
                     "timestamp": "2017-05-04T22:46:09.677Z"
                  }
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:46:09.674Z"/$body.docs.0.processor_results.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:46:09.675Z"/$body.docs.0.processor_results.1.doc._ingest.timestamp/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:46:09.676Z"/$body.docs.1.processor_results.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"2017-05-04T22:46:09.677Z"/$body.docs.1.processor_results.1.doc._ingest.timestamp/]

[[accessing-data-in-pipelines]]
== Accessing Data in Pipelines

The processors in a pipeline have read and write access to documents that pass through the pipeline.
The processors can access fields in the source of a document and the document's metadata fields.

[float]
[[accessing-source-fields]]
=== Accessing Fields in the Source
Accessing a field in the source is straightforward. You simply refer to fields by
their name. For example:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "my_field",
    "value": 582.1
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

On top of this, fields from the source are always accessible via the `_source` prefix:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "_source.my_field",
    "value": 582.1
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[float]
[[accessing-metadata-fields]]
=== Accessing Metadata Fields
You can access metadata fields in the same way that you access fields in the source. This
is possible because Elasticsearch doesn't allow fields in the source that have the
same name as metadata fields.

The following example sets the `_id` metadata field of a document to `1`:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "_id",
    "value": "1"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The following metadata fields are accessible by a processor: `_index`, `_type`, `_id`, `_routing`.

[float]
[[accessing-ingest-metadata]]
=== Accessing Ingest Metadata Fields
Beyond metadata fields and source fields, ingest also adds ingest metadata to the documents that it processes.
These metadata properties are accessible under the `_ingest` key. Currently ingest adds the ingest timestamp
under the `_ingest.timestamp` key of the ingest metadata. The ingest timestamp is the time when Elasticsearch
received the index or bulk request to pre-process the document.

Any processor can add ingest-related metadata during document processing. Ingest metadata is transient
and is lost after a document has been processed by the pipeline. Therefore, ingest metadata won't be indexed.

The following example adds a field with the name `received`. The value is the ingest timestamp:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "received",
    "value": "{{_ingest.timestamp}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Unlike Elasticsearch metadata fields, the ingest metadata field name `_ingest` can be used as a valid field name
in the source of a document. Use `_source._ingest` to refer to the field in the source document. Otherwise, `_ingest`
will be interpreted as an ingest metadata field.

[float]
[[accessing-template-fields]]
=== Accessing Fields and Metafields in Templates
A number of processor settings also support templating. Settings that support templating can have zero or more
template snippets. A template snippet begins with `{{` and ends with `}}`.
Accessing fields and metafields in templates is exactly the same as via regular processor field settings.

The following example adds a field named `field_c`. Its value is a concatenation of
the values of `field_a` and `field_b`.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "field_c",
    "value": "{{field_a}} {{field_b}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The following example uses the value of the `geoip.country_iso_code` field in the source
to set the index that the document will be indexed into:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "_index",
    "value": "{{geoip.country_iso_code}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Dynamic field names are also supported. This example sets the field named after the
value of `service` to the value of the field `code`:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "{{service}}",
    "value": "{{code}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[handling-failure-in-pipelines]]
== Handling Failures in Pipelines

In its simplest use case, a pipeline defines a list of processors that
are executed sequentially, and processing halts at the first exception. This
behavior may not be desirable when failures are expected. For example, you may have logs
that don't match the specified grok expression. Instead of halting execution, you may
want to index such documents into a separate index.

To enable this behavior, you can use the `on_failure` parameter. The `on_failure` parameter
defines a list of processors to be executed immediately following the failed processor.
You can specify this parameter at the pipeline level, as well as at the processor
level. If a processor specifies an `on_failure` configuration, whether
it is empty or not, any exceptions that are thrown by the processor are caught, and the
pipeline continues executing the remaining processors. Because you can define further processors
within the scope of an `on_failure` statement, you can nest failure handling.

The following example defines a pipeline that renames the `foo` field in
the processed document to `bar`. If the document does not contain the `foo` field, the processor
attaches an error message to the document for later analysis within
Elasticsearch.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "my first pipeline with handled exceptions",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "rename" : {
        "field" : "foo",
        "target_field" : "bar",
        "on_failure" : [
          {
            "set" : {
              "field" : "error",
              "value" : "field \"foo\" does not exist, cannot rename to \"bar\""
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The following example defines an `on_failure` block on a whole pipeline to change
the index to which failed documents get sent.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "my first pipeline with handled exceptions",
  "processors" : [ ... ],
  "on_failure" : [
    {
      "set" : {
        "field" : "_index",
        "value" : "failed-{{ _index }}"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Alternatively instead of defining behaviour in case of processor failure, it is also possible
to ignore a failure and continue with the next processor by specifying the `ignore_failure` setting.

In case in the example below the field `foo` doesn't exist the failure will be caught and the pipeline
continues to execute, which in this case means that the pipeline does nothing.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "my first pipeline with handled exceptions",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "rename" : {
        "field" : "foo",
        "target_field" : "bar",
        "ignore_failure" : true
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The `ignore_failure` can be set on any processor and defaults to `false`.

[float]
[[accessing-error-metadata]]
=== Accessing Error Metadata From Processors Handling Exceptions

You may want to retrieve the actual error message that was thrown
by a failed processor. To do so you can access metadata fields called
`on_failure_message`, `on_failure_processor_type`, and `on_failure_processor_tag`. These fields are only accessible
from within the context of an `on_failure` block.

Here is an updated version of the example that you
saw earlier. But instead of setting the error message manually, the example leverages the `on_failure_message`
metadata field to provide the error message.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "my first pipeline with handled exceptions",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "rename" : {
        "field" : "foo",
        "to" : "bar",
        "on_failure" : [
          {
            "set" : {
              "field" : "error",
              "value" : "{{ _ingest.on_failure_message }}"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[ingest-processors]]
== Processors

All processors are defined in the following way within a pipeline definition:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "PROCESSOR_NAME" : {
    ... processor configuration options ...
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Each processor defines its own configuration parameters, but all processors have
the ability to declare `tag`, `on_failure` and `if` fields. These fields are optional.

A `tag` is simply a string identifier of the specific instantiation of a certain
processor in a pipeline. The `tag` field does not affect the processor's behavior,
but is very useful for bookkeeping and tracing errors to specific processors.

The `if` field must contain a script that returns a boolean value. If the script evaluates to `true`
then the processor will be executed for the given document otherwise it will be skipped.
The `if` field takes an object with the script fields defined in <<script-processor, script-options>>
and accesses a read only version of the document via the same `ctx` variable used by scripts in the
<<script-processor>>.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "if": "ctx.bar == 'expectedValue'",
    "field": "foo",
    "value": "bar"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

See <<handling-failure-in-pipelines>> to learn more about the `on_failure` field and error handling in pipelines.

The <<ingest-info,node info API>> can be used to figure out what processors are available in a cluster.
The <<ingest-info,node info API>> will provide a per node list of what processors are available.

Custom processors must be installed on all nodes. The put pipeline API will fail if a processor specified in a pipeline
doesn't exist on all nodes. If you rely on custom processor plugins make sure to mark these plugins as mandatory by adding
`plugin.mandatory` setting to the `config/elasticsearch.yml` file, for example:

[source,yaml]
--------------------------------------------------
plugin.mandatory: ingest-attachment,ingest-geoip
--------------------------------------------------

A node will not start if either of these plugins are not available.

The <<ingest-stats,node stats API>> can be used to fetch ingest usage statistics, globally and on a per
pipeline basis. Useful to find out which pipelines are used the most or spent the most time on preprocessing.

[[append-processor]]
=== Append Processor
Appends one or more values to an existing array if the field already exists and it is an array.
Converts a scalar to an array and appends one or more values to it if the field exists and it is a scalar.
Creates an array containing the provided values if the field doesn't exist.
Accepts a single value or an array of values.

[[append-options]]
.Append Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name      | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`  | yes       | -        | The field to be appended to. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `value`  | yes       | -        | The value to be appended. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "append": {
    "field": "tags",
    "value": ["production", "{{app}}", "{{owner}}"]
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[bytes-processor]]
=== Bytes Processor
Converts a human readable byte value (e.g. 1kb) to its value in bytes (e.g. 1024).

Supported human readable units are "b", "kb", "mb", "gb", "tb", "pb" case insensitive. An error will occur if
the field is not a supported format or resultant value exceeds 2^63.

[[bytes-options]]
.Bytes Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field to convert
| `target_field`   | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "bytes": {
    "field": "file.size"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[convert-processor]]
=== Convert Processor
Converts an existing field's value to a different type, such as converting a string to an integer.
If the field value is an array, all members will be converted.

The supported types include: `integer`, `long`, `float`, `double`, `string`, `boolean`, and `auto`.

Specifying `boolean` will set the field to true if its string value is equal to `true` (ignore case), to
false if its string value is equal to `false` (ignore case), or it will throw an exception otherwise.

Specifying `auto` will attempt to convert the string-valued `field` into the closest non-string type.
For example, a field whose value is `"true"` will be converted to its respective boolean type: `true`. Do note
that float takes precedence of double in `auto`. A value of `"242.15"` will "automatically" be converted to
`242.15` of type `float`. If a provided field cannot be appropriately converted, the Convert Processor will
still process successfully and leave the field value as-is. In such a case, `target_field` will
still be updated with the unconverted field value.

[[convert-options]]
.Convert Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field whose value is to be converted
| `target_field`   | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `type`           | yes       | -        | The type to convert the existing value to
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "convert": {
    "field" : "url.port",
    "type": "integer"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[date-processor]]
=== Date Processor

Parses dates from fields, and then uses the date or timestamp as the timestamp for the document.
By default, the date processor adds the parsed date as a new field called `@timestamp`. You can specify a
different field by setting the `target_field` configuration parameter. Multiple date formats are supported
as part of the same date processor definition. They will be used sequentially to attempt parsing the date field,
in the same order they were defined as part of the processor definition.

[[date-options]]
.Date options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name                   | Required  | Default             | Description
| `field`                | yes       | -                   | The field to get the date from.
| `target_field`         | no        | @timestamp          | The field that will hold the parsed date.
| `formats`              | yes       | -                   | An array of the expected date formats. Can be a Joda pattern or one of the following formats: ISO8601, UNIX, UNIX_MS, or TAI64N.
| `timezone`        | no        | UTC                 | The timezone to use when parsing the date. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `locale`          | no        | ENGLISH             | The locale to use when parsing the date, relevant when parsing month names or week days. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

Here is an example that adds the parsed date to the `timestamp` field based on the `initial_date` field:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "...",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "date" : {
        "field" : "initial_date",
        "target_field" : "timestamp",
        "formats" : ["dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss"],
        "timezone" : "Europe/Amsterdam"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The `timezone` and `locale` processor parameters are templated. This means that their values can be
extracted from fields within documents. The example below shows how to extract the locale/timezone
details from existing fields, `my_timezone` and `my_locale`, in the ingested document that contain
the timezone and locale values.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "...",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "date" : {
        "field" : "initial_date",
        "target_field" : "timestamp",
        "formats" : ["ISO8601"],
        "timezone" : "{{my_timezone}}",
        "locale" : "{{my_locale}}"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[date-index-name-processor]]
=== Date Index Name Processor

The purpose of this processor is to point documents to the right time based index based
on a date or timestamp field in a document by using the <<date-math-index-names, date math index name support>>.

The processor sets the `_index` meta field with a date math index name expression based on the provided index name
prefix, a date or timestamp field in the documents being processed and the provided date rounding.

First, this processor fetches the date or timestamp from a field in the document being processed. Optionally,
date formatting can be configured on how the field's value should be parsed into a date. Then this date,
the provided index name prefix and the provided date rounding get formatted into a date math index name expression.
Also here optionally date formatting can be specified on how the date should be formatted into a date math index name
expression.

An example pipeline that points documents to a monthly index that starts with a `myindex-` prefix based on a
date in the `date1` field:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/monthlyindex
{
  "description": "monthly date-time index naming",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "date_index_name" : {
        "field" : "date1",
        "index_name_prefix" : "myindex-",
        "date_rounding" : "M"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE


Using that pipeline for an index request:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT /myindex/_doc/1?pipeline=monthlyindex
{
  "date1" : "2016-04-25T12:02:01.789Z"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "_index" : "myindex-2016-04-01",
  "_type" : "_doc",
  "_id" : "1",
  "_version" : 1,
  "result" : "created",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 0,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE


The above request will not index this document into the `myindex` index, but into the `myindex-2016-04-01` index because
it was rounded by month. This is because the date-index-name-processor overrides the `_index` property of the document.

To see the date-math value of the index supplied in the actual index request which resulted in the above document being
indexed into `myindex-2016-04-01` we can inspect the effects of the processor using a simulate request.


[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline" :
  {
    "description": "monthly date-time index naming",
    "processors" : [
      {
        "date_index_name" : {
          "field" : "date1",
          "index_name_prefix" : "myindex-",
          "date_rounding" : "M"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "docs": [
    {
      "_source": {
        "date1": "2016-04-25T12:02:01.789Z"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

and the result:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "docs" : [
    {
      "doc" : {
        "_id" : "_id",
        "_index" : "<myindex-{2016-04-25||/M{yyyy-MM-dd|UTC}}>",
        "_type" : "_type",
        "_source" : {
          "date1" : "2016-04-25T12:02:01.789Z"
        },
        "_ingest" : {
          "timestamp" : "2016-11-08T19:43:03.850+0000"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/2016-11-08T19:43:03.850\+0000/$body.docs.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]

The above example shows that `_index` was set to `<myindex-{2016-04-25||/M{yyyy-MM-dd|UTC}}>`. Elasticsearch
understands this to mean `2016-04-01` as is explained in the <<date-math-index-names, date math index name documentation>>

[[date-index-name-options]]
.Date index name options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name                   | Required  | Default                      | Description
| `field`                | yes       | -                            | The field to get the date or timestamp from.
| `index_name_prefix`    | no        | -                            | A prefix of the index name to be prepended before the printed date. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `date_rounding`        | yes       | -                            | How to round the date when formatting the date into the index name. Valid values are: `y` (year), `M` (month), `w` (week), `d` (day), `h` (hour), `m` (minute) and `s` (second). Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `date_formats`         | no        | yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ   | An array of the expected date formats for parsing dates / timestamps in the document being preprocessed. Can be a Joda pattern or one of the following formats: ISO8601, UNIX, UNIX_MS, or TAI64N.
| `timezone`             | no        | UTC                          | The timezone to use when parsing the date and when date math index supports resolves expressions into concrete index names.
| `locale`               | no        | ENGLISH                      | The locale to use when parsing the date from the document being preprocessed, relevant when parsing month names or week days.
| `index_name_format`    | no        | yyyy-MM-dd                   | The format to be used when printing the parsed date into the index name. An valid Joda pattern is expected here. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[[dissect-processor]]
=== Dissect Processor

Similar to the <<grok-processor,Grok Processor>>, dissect also extracts structured fields out of a single text field
within a document.  However unlike the <<grok-processor,Grok Processor>>, dissect does not use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression[Regular Expressions]. This allows dissect's syntax to be simple and for
some cases faster than the <<grok-processor,Grok Processor>>.

Dissect matches a single text field against a defined pattern.

For example the following pattern:
[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
%{clientip} %{ident} %{auth} [%{@timestamp}] \"%{verb} %{request} HTTP/%{httpversion}\" %{status} %{size}
--------------------------------------------------
will match a log line of this format:
[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
1.2.3.4 - - [30/Apr/1998:22:00:52 +0000] \"GET /english/venues/cities/images/montpellier/18.gif HTTP/1.0\" 200 3171
--------------------------------------------------
and result in a document with the following fields:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
"doc": {
  "_index": "_index",
  "_type": "_type",
  "_id": "_id",
  "_source": {
    "request": "/english/venues/cities/images/montpellier/18.gif",
    "auth": "-",
    "ident": "-",
    "verb": "GET",
    "@timestamp": "30/Apr/1998:22:00:52 +0000",
    "size": "3171",
    "clientip": "1.2.3.4",
    "httpversion": "1.0",
    "status": "200"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

A dissect pattern is defined by the parts of the string that will be discarded. In the example above the first part
to be discarded is a single space. Dissect finds this space, then assigns the value of `clientip` is everything up
until that space.
Later dissect matches the `[` and then `]` and then assigns `@timestamp` to everything in-between `[` and `]`.
Paying special attention the parts of the string to discard will help build successful dissect patterns.

Successful matches require all keys in a pattern to have a value. If any of the `%{keyname}` defined in the pattern do
not have a value, then an exception is thrown and may be handled by the <<handling-failure-in-pipelines,on_falure>> directive.
An empty key `%{}` or a <<dissect-modifier-named-skip-key, named skip key>> can be used to match values, but exclude the value from
the final document. All matched values are represented as string data types. The <<convert-processor, convert processor>>
may be used to convert to expected data type.

Dissect also supports <<dissect-key-modifiers,key modifiers>> that can change dissect's default
behavior. For example you can instruct dissect to ignore certain fields, append fields, skip over padding, etc.
See <<dissect-key-modifiers, below>> for more information.

[[dissect-options]]
.Dissect Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to dissect
| `pattern`         | yes       | -        | The pattern to apply to the field
| `append_separator`| no        | "" (empty string) | The character(s) that separate the appended fields.
| `ignore_missing`  | no        | false             | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "dissect": {
    "field": "message",
    "pattern" : "%{clientip} %{ident} %{auth} [%{@timestamp}] \"%{verb} %{request} HTTP/%{httpversion}\" %{status} %{size}"
   }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE
[[dissect-key-modifiers]]
==== Dissect key modifiers
Key modifiers can change the default behavior for dissection. Key modifiers may be found on the left or right
of the `%{keyname}` always inside the `%{` and `}`. For example `%{+keyname ->}` has the append and right padding
modifiers.

.Dissect Key Modifiers
[options="header"]
|======
| Modifier      | Name               | Position       | Example                      | Description                                                  | Details
| `->`          | Skip right padding | (far) right    | `%{keyname1->}`  | Skips any repeated characters to the right                   | <<dissect-modifier-skip-right-padding,link>>
| `+`           | Append             | left           | `%{+keyname} %{+keyname}`    | Appends two or more fields together                          | <<dissect-modifier-append-key,link>>
| `+` with `/n` | Append with order  | left and right | `%{+keyname/2} %{+keyname/1}` | Appends two or more fields together in the order specified   | <<dissect-modifier-append-key-with-order,link>>
| `?`           | Named skip key     | left           | `%{?ignoreme}`  | Skips the matched value in the output. Same behavior as `%{}`| <<dissect-modifier-named-skip-key,link>>
| `*` and `&`   | Reference keys     | left           | `%{*r1} %{&r1}`    | Sets the output key as value of `*` and output value of `&`  | <<dissect-modifier-reference-keys,link>>
|======

[[dissect-modifier-skip-right-padding]]
===== Right padding modifier (`->`)

The algorithm that performs the dissection is very strict in that it requires all characters in the pattern to match
the source string. For example, the pattern `%{fookey} %{barkey}` (1 space), will match the string "foo{nbsp}bar"
(1 space), but will not match the string "foo{nbsp}{nbsp}bar" (2 spaces) since the pattern has only 1 space and the
source string has 2 spaces.

The right padding modifier helps with this case. Adding the right padding modifier to the pattern `%{fookey->} %{barkey}`,
It will now will match "foo{nbsp}bar" (1 space) and "foo{nbsp}{nbsp}bar" (2 spaces)
and even "foo{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}bar" (10 spaces).

Use the right padding modifier to allow for repetition of the characters after a `%{keyname->}`.

The right padding modifier may be placed on any key with any other modifiers. It should always be the furthest right
modifier. For example: `%{+keyname/1->}` and `%{->}`

Right padding modifier example
|======
| *Pattern* | `%{ts->} %{level}`
| *Input*   |  1998-08-10T17:15:42,466{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}WARN
| *Result*  a|
* ts = 1998-08-10T17:15:42,466
* level = WARN
|======

The right padding modifier may be used with an empty key to help skip unwanted data. For example, the same input string, but wrapped with brackets requires the use of an empty right padded key to achieve the same result.

Right padding modifier with empty key example
|======
| *Pattern* | `[%{ts}]%{->}[%{level}]`
| *Input*   | [1998-08-10T17:15:42,466]{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}{nbsp}[WARN]
| *Result*  a|
* ts = 1998-08-10T17:15:42,466
* level = WARN
|======

===== Append modifier (`+`)
[[dissect-modifier-append-key]]
Dissect supports appending two or more results together for the output.
Values are appended left to right. An append separator can be specified.
In this example the append_separator is defined as a space.

Append modifier example
|======
| *Pattern* | `%{+name} %{+name} %{+name} %{+name}`
| *Input*   | john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
| *Result*  a|
* name = john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
|======

===== Append with order modifier (`+` and `/n`)
[[dissect-modifier-append-key-with-order]]
Dissect supports appending two or more results together for the output.
Values are appended based on the order defined (`/n`). An append separator can be specified.
In this example the append_separator is defined as a comma.

Append with order modifier example
|======
| *Pattern* | `%{+name/2} %{+name/4} %{+name/3} %{+name/1}`
| *Input*   | john jacob jingleheimer schmidt
| *Result*  a|
* name = schmidt,john,jingleheimer,jacob
|======

===== Named skip key (`?`)
[[dissect-modifier-named-skip-key]]
Dissect supports ignoring matches in the final result. This can be done with an empty key `%{}`, but for readability
it may be desired to give that empty key a name. 

Named skip key modifier example
|======
| *Pattern* | `%{clientip} %{?ident} %{?auth} [%{@timestamp}]`
| *Input*   | 1.2.3.4 - - [30/Apr/1998:22:00:52 +0000]
| *Result*  a|
* ip = 1.2.3.4
* @timestamp = 30/Apr/1998:22:00:52 +0000
|======

===== Reference keys (`*` and `&`)
[[dissect-modifier-reference-keys]]
Dissect support using parsed values as the key/value pairings for the structured content. Imagine a system that 
partially logs in key/value pairs. Reference keys allow you to maintain that key/value relationship.
 
Reference key modifier example
|======
| *Pattern* | `[%{ts}] [%{level}] %{*p1}:%{&p1} %{*p2}:%{&p2}`
| *Input*   | [2018-08-10T17:15:42,466] [ERR] ip:1.2.3.4 error:REFUSED
| *Result*  a|
* ts = 1998-08-10T17:15:42,466
* level = ERR
* ip = 1.2.3.4
* error = REFUSED
|====== 

[[drop-processor]]
=== Drop Processor
Drops the document without raising any errors. This is useful to prevent the document from
getting indexed based on some condition.

[[drop-options]]
.Drop Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "drop": {
    "if" : "ctx.network_name == 'Guest'"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[dot-expand-processor]]
=== Dot Expander Processor

Expands a field with dots into an object field. This processor allows fields
with dots in the name to be accessible by other processors in the pipeline.
Otherwise these <<accessing-data-in-pipelines,fields>> can't be accessed by any processor.

[[dot-expender-options]]
.Dot Expand Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name     | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`  | yes       | -        | The field to expand into an object field
| `path`   | no        | -        | The field that contains the field to expand. Only required if the field to expand is part another object field, because the `field` option can only understand leaf fields.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "dot_expander": {
    "field": "foo.bar"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

For example the dot expand processor would turn this document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foo.bar" : "value"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

into:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foo" : {
    "bar" : "value"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

If there is already a `bar` field nested under `foo` then
this processor merges the `foo.bar` field into it. If the field is
a scalar value then it will turn that field into an array field.

For example, the following document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foo.bar" : "value2",
  "foo" : {
    "bar" : "value1"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

is transformed by the `dot_expander` processor into:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foo" : {
    "bar" : ["value1", "value2"]
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

If any field outside of the leaf field conflicts with a pre-existing field of the same name,
then that field needs to be renamed first.

Consider the following document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foo": "value1",
  "foo.bar": "value2"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Then the `foo` needs to be renamed first before the `dot_expander`
processor is applied. So in order for the `foo.bar` field to properly
be expanded into the `bar` field under the `foo` field the following
pipeline should be used:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "processors" : [
    {
      "rename" : {
        "field" : "foo",
        "target_field" : "foo.bar""
      }
    },
    {
      "dot_expander": {
        "field": "foo.bar"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The reason for this is that Ingest doesn't know how to automatically cast
a scalar field to an object field.

[[fail-processor]]
=== Fail Processor
Raises an exception. This is useful for when
you expect a pipeline to fail and want to relay a specific message
to the requester.

[[fail-options]]
.Fail Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name       | Required  | Default  | Description
| `message`  | yes       | -        | The error message thrown by the processor. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "fail": {
    "if" : "ctx.tags.contains('production') != true",
    "message": "The production tag is not present, found tags: {{tags}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[foreach-processor]]
=== Foreach Processor

Processes elements in an array of unknown length.

All processors can operate on elements inside an array, but if all elements of an array need to
be processed in the same way, defining a processor for each element becomes cumbersome and tricky
because it is likely that the number of elements in an array is unknown. For this reason the `foreach`
processor exists. By specifying the field holding array elements and a processor that
defines what should happen to each element, array fields can easily be preprocessed.

A processor inside the foreach processor works in the array element context and puts that in the ingest metadata
under the `_ingest._value` key. If the array element is a json object it holds all immediate fields of that json object.
and if the nested object is a value is `_ingest._value` just holds that value. Note that if a processor prior to the
`foreach` processor used `_ingest._value` key then the specified value will not be available to the processor inside
the `foreach` processor. The `foreach` processor does restore the original value, so that value is available to processors
after the `foreach` processor.

Note that any other field from the document are accessible and modifiable like with all other processors. This processor
just puts the current array element being read into `_ingest._value` ingest metadata attribute, so that it may be
pre-processed.

If the `foreach` processor fails to process an element inside the array, and no `on_failure` processor has been specified,
then it aborts the execution and leaves the array unmodified.

[[foreach-options]]
.Foreach Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The array field
| `processor`      | yes       | -        | The processor to execute against each field
| `ignore_missing` | no        | false    | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

Assume the following document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "values" : ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

When this `foreach` processor operates on this sample document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foreach" : {
    "field" : "values",
    "processor" : {
      "uppercase" : {
        "field" : "_ingest._value"
      }
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Then the document will look like this after preprocessing:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "values" : ["FOO", "BAR", "BAZ"]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

Let's take a look at another example:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "persons" : [
    {
      "id" : "1",
      "name" : "John Doe"
    },
    {
      "id" : "2",
      "name" : "Jane Doe"
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

In this case, the `id` field needs to be removed,
so the following `foreach` processor is used:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foreach" : {
    "field" : "persons",
    "processor" : {
      "remove" : {
        "field" : "_ingest._value.id"
      }
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

After preprocessing the result is:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "persons" : [
    {
      "name" : "John Doe"
    },
    {
      "name" : "Jane Doe"
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The wrapped processor can have a `on_failure` definition.
For example, the `id` field may not exist on all person objects.
Instead of failing the index request, you can use an `on_failure`
block to send the document to the 'failure_index' index for later inspection:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "foreach" : {
    "field" : "persons",
    "processor" : {
      "remove" : {
        "field" : "_value.id",
        "on_failure" : [
          {
            "set" : {
              "field", "_index",
              "value", "failure_index"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

In this example, if the `remove` processor does fail, then
the array elements that have been processed thus far will
be updated.

Another advanced example can be found in the {plugins}/ingest-attachment-with-arrays.html[attachment processor documentation].



[[grok-processor]]
=== Grok Processor

Extracts structured fields out of a single text field within a document. You choose which field to
extract matched fields from, as well as the grok pattern you expect will match. A grok pattern is like a regular
expression that supports aliased expressions that can be reused.

This tool is perfect for syslog logs, apache and other webserver logs, mysql logs, and in general, any log format
that is generally written for humans and not computer consumption.
This processor comes packaged with many
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/{branch}/libs/grok/src/main/resources/patterns[reusable patterns].

If you need help building patterns to match your logs, you will find the {kibana-ref}/xpack-grokdebugger.html[Grok Debugger] tool quite useful! The Grok Debugger is an {xpack} feature under the Basic License and is therefore *free to use*. The Grok Constructor at <http://grokconstructor.appspot.com/> is also a useful tool.

[[grok-basics]]
==== Grok Basics

Grok sits on top of regular expressions, so any regular expressions are valid in grok as well.
The regular expression library is Oniguruma, and you can see the full supported regexp syntax
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/blob/master/doc/RE[on the Onigiruma site].

Grok works by leveraging this regular expression language to allow naming existing patterns and combining them into more
complex patterns that match your fields.

The syntax for reusing a grok pattern comes in three forms: `%{SYNTAX:SEMANTIC}`, `%{SYNTAX}`, `%{SYNTAX:SEMANTIC:TYPE}`.

The `SYNTAX` is the name of the pattern that will match your text. For example, `3.44` will be matched by the `NUMBER`
pattern and `55.3.244.1` will be matched by the `IP` pattern. The syntax is how you match. `NUMBER` and `IP` are both
patterns that are provided within the default patterns set.

The `SEMANTIC` is the identifier you give to the piece of text being matched. For example, `3.44` could be the
duration of an event, so you could call it simply `duration`. Further, a string `55.3.244.1` might identify
the `client` making a request.

The `TYPE` is the type you wish to cast your named field. `int`, `long`, `double`, `float` and `boolean` are supported types for coercion.

For example, you might want to match the following text:

[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
3.44 55.3.244.1
--------------------------------------------------

You may know that the message in the example is a number followed by an IP address. You can match this text by using the following
Grok expression.

[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
%{NUMBER:duration} %{IP:client}
--------------------------------------------------

[[using-grok]]
==== Using the Grok Processor in a Pipeline

[[grok-options]]
.Grok Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name                   | Required  | Default             | Description
| `field`                | yes       | -                   | The field to use for grok expression parsing
| `patterns`             | yes       | -                   | An ordered list of grok expression to match and extract named captures with. Returns on the first expression in the list that matches.
| `pattern_definitions`  | no        | -                   | A map of pattern-name and pattern tuples defining custom patterns to be used by the current processor. Patterns matching existing names will override the pre-existing definition.
| `trace_match`          | no        | false               | when true, `_ingest._grok_match_index` will be inserted into your matched document's metadata with the index into the pattern found in `patterns` that matched.
| `ignore_missing`       | no        | false               | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

Here is an example of using the provided patterns to extract out and name structured fields from a string field in
a document.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "message": "55.3.244.1 GET /index.html 15824 0.043"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

The pattern for this could be:

[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
%{IP:client} %{WORD:method} %{URIPATHPARAM:request} %{NUMBER:bytes} %{NUMBER:duration}
--------------------------------------------------

Here is an example pipeline for processing the above document by using Grok:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "...",
  "processors": [
    {
      "grok": {
        "field": "message",
        "patterns": ["%{IP:client} %{WORD:method} %{URIPATHPARAM:request} %{NUMBER:bytes} %{NUMBER:duration}"]
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

This pipeline will insert these named captures as new fields within the document, like so:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "message": "55.3.244.1 GET /index.html 15824 0.043",
  "client": "55.3.244.1",
  "method": "GET",
  "request": "/index.html",
  "bytes": 15824,
  "duration": "0.043"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[custom-patterns]]
==== Custom Patterns

The Grok processor comes pre-packaged with a base set of pattern. These patterns may not always have
what you are looking for. Pattern have a very basic format. Each entry describes has a name and the pattern itself.

You can add your own patterns to a processor definition under the `pattern_definitions` option.
Here is an example of a pipeline specifying custom pattern definitions:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "description" : "...",
  "processors": [
    {
      "grok": {
        "field": "message",
        "patterns": ["my %{FAVORITE_DOG:dog} is colored %{RGB:color}"],
        "pattern_definitions" : {
          "FAVORITE_DOG" : "beagle",
          "RGB" : "RED|GREEN|BLUE"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[trace-match]]
==== Providing Multiple Match Patterns

Sometimes one pattern is not enough to capture the potential structure of a field. Let's assume we
want to match all messages that contain your favorite pet breeds of either cats or dogs. One way to accomplish
this is to provide two distinct patterns that can be matched, instead of one really complicated expression capturing
the same `or` behavior.

Here is an example of such a configuration executed against the simulate API:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline": {
  "description" : "parse multiple patterns",
  "processors": [
    {
      "grok": {
        "field": "message",
        "patterns": ["%{FAVORITE_DOG:pet}", "%{FAVORITE_CAT:pet}"],
        "pattern_definitions" : {
          "FAVORITE_DOG" : "beagle",
          "FAVORITE_CAT" : "burmese"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
},
"docs":[
  {
    "_source": {
      "message": "I love burmese cats!"
    }
  }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

response:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "docs": [
    {
      "doc": {
        "_type": "_type",
        "_index": "_index",
        "_id": "_id",
        "_source": {
          "message": "I love burmese cats!",
          "pet": "burmese"
        },
        "_ingest": {
          "timestamp": "2016-11-08T19:43:03.850+0000"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/2016-11-08T19:43:03.850\+0000/$body.docs.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]

Both patterns will set the field `pet` with the appropriate match, but what if we want to trace which of our
patterns matched and populated our fields? We can do this with the `trace_match` parameter. Here is the output of
that same pipeline, but with `"trace_match": true` configured:

////
Hidden setup for example:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline": {
  "description" : "parse multiple patterns",
  "processors": [
    {
      "grok": {
        "field": "message",
        "patterns": ["%{FAVORITE_DOG:pet}", "%{FAVORITE_CAT:pet}"],
        "trace_match": true,
        "pattern_definitions" : {
          "FAVORITE_DOG" : "beagle",
          "FAVORITE_CAT" : "burmese"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
},
"docs":[
  {
    "_source": {
      "message": "I love burmese cats!"
    }
  }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
////

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "docs": [
    {
      "doc": {
        "_type": "_type",
        "_index": "_index",
        "_id": "_id",
        "_source": {
          "message": "I love burmese cats!",
          "pet": "burmese"
        },
        "_ingest": {
          "_grok_match_index": "1",
          "timestamp": "2016-11-08T19:43:03.850+0000"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/2016-11-08T19:43:03.850\+0000/$body.docs.0.doc._ingest.timestamp/]

In the above response, you can see that the index of the pattern that matched was `"1"`. This is to say that it was the
second (index starts at zero) pattern in `patterns` to match.

This trace metadata enables debugging which of the patterns matched. This information is stored in the ingest
metadata and will not be indexed.

[[grok-processor-rest-get]]
==== Retrieving patterns from REST endpoint

The Grok Processor comes packaged with its own REST endpoint for retrieving which patterns the processor is packaged with.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET _ingest/processor/grok
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

The above request will return a response body containing a key-value representation of the built-in patterns dictionary.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "patterns" : {
    "BACULA_CAPACITY" : "%{INT}{1,3}(,%{INT}{3})*",
    "PATH" : "(?:%{UNIXPATH}|%{WINPATH})",
    ...
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

This can be useful to reference as the built-in patterns change across versions.

[[grok-watchdog]]
==== Grok watchdog

Grok expressions that take too long to execute are interrupted and
the grok processor then fails with an exception. The grok
processor has a watchdog thread that determines when evaluation of
a grok expression takes too long and is controlled by the following
settings:

[[grok-watchdog-options]]
.Grok watchdog settings
[options="header"]
|======
| Name                                      | Default | Description
| `ingest.grok.watchdog.interval`           | 1s      | How often to check whether there are grok evaluations that take longer than the maximum allowed execution time.
| `ingest.grok.watchdog.max_execution_time` | 1s      | The maximum allowed execution of a grok expression evaluation.
|======

[[gsub-processor]]
=== Gsub Processor
Converts a string field by applying a regular expression and a replacement.
If the field is not a string, the processor will throw an exception.

[[gsub-options]]
.Gsub Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to apply the replacement to
| `pattern`         | yes       | -        | The pattern to be replaced
| `replacement`     | yes       | -        | The string to replace the matching patterns with
| `target_field`    | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing`  | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "gsub": {
    "field": "field1",
    "pattern": "\.",
    "replacement": "-"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[join-processor]]
=== Join Processor
Joins each element of an array into a single string using a separator character between each element.
Throws an error when the field is not an array.

[[join-options]]
.Join Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to be separated
| `separator`       | yes       | -        | The separator character
| `target_field`    | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the joined value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "join": {
    "field": "joined_array_field",
    "separator": "-"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[json-processor]]
=== JSON Processor
Converts a JSON string into a structured JSON object.

[[json-options]]
.Json Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name           | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`        | yes       | -        | The field to be parsed
| `target_field` | no        | `field`  | The field to insert the converted structured object into
| `add_to_root`  | no        | false    | Flag that forces the serialized json to be injected into the top level of the document. `target_field` must not be set when this option is chosen.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

All JSON-supported types will be parsed (null, boolean, number, array, object, string).

Suppose you provide this configuration of the `json` processor:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "json" : {
    "field" : "string_source",
    "target_field" : "json_target"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

If the following document is processed:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "string_source": "{\"foo\": 2000}"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

after the `json` processor operates on it, it will look like:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "string_source": "{\"foo\": 2000}",
  "json_target": {
    "foo": 2000
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

If the following configuration is provided, omitting the optional `target_field` setting:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "json" : {
    "field" : "source_and_target"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

then after the `json` processor operates on this document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "source_and_target": "{\"foo\": 2000}"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

it will look like:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "source_and_target": {
    "foo": 2000
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

This illustrates that, unless it is explicitly named in the processor configuration, the `target_field`
is the same field provided in the required `field` configuration.

[[kv-processor]]
=== KV Processor
This processor helps automatically parse messages (or specific event fields) which are of the foo=bar variety.

For example, if you have a log message which contains `ip=1.2.3.4 error=REFUSED`, you can parse those automatically by configuring:


[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "kv": {
    "field": "message",
    "field_split": " ",
    "value_split": "="
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[kv-options]]
.Kv Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field to be parsed
| `field_split`    | yes       | -        | Regex pattern to use for splitting key-value pairs
| `value_split`    | yes       | -        | Regex pattern to use for splitting the key from the value within a key-value pair
| `target_field`   | no        | `null`   | The field to insert the extracted keys into. Defaults to the root of the document
| `include_keys`   | no        | `null`   | List of keys to filter and insert into document. Defaults to including all keys
| `exclude_keys`   | no        | `null`   | List of keys to exclude from document
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
| `prefix`         | no        | `null`   | Prefix to be added to extracted keys
| `trim_key`       | no        | `null`   | String of characters to trim from extracted keys
| `trim_value`     | no        | `null`   | String of characters to trim from extracted values
| `strip_brackets` | no        | `false`  | If `true` strip brackets `()`, `<>`, `[]` as well as quotes `'` and `"` from extracted values
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======


[[lowercase-processor]]
=== Lowercase Processor
Converts a string to its lowercase equivalent.

[[lowercase-options]]
.Lowercase Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field to make lowercase
| `target_field`   | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "lowercase": {
    "field": "foo"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[pipeline-processor]]
=== Pipeline Processor
Executes another pipeline.

[[pipeline-options]]
.Pipeline Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `name`           | yes       | -        | The name of the pipeline to execute
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "pipeline": {
    "name": "inner-pipeline"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

An example of using this processor for nesting pipelines would be:

Define an inner pipeline:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/pipelineA
{
  "description" : "inner pipeline",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "set" : {
        "field": "inner_pipeline_set",
        "value": "inner"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

Define another pipeline that uses the previously defined inner pipeline:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/pipelineB
{
  "description" : "outer pipeline",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "pipeline" : {
        "name": "pipelineA"
      }
    },
    {
      "set" : {
        "field": "outer_pipeline_set",
        "value": "outer"
      }
    }
  ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

Now indexing a document while applying the outer pipeline will see the inner pipeline executed
from the outer pipeline:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT /myindex/_doc/1?pipeline=pipelineB
{
  "field": "value"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

Response from the index request:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "_index": "myindex",
  "_type": "_doc",
  "_id": "1",
  "_version": 1,
  "result": "created",
  "_shards": {
    "total": 2,
    "successful": 1,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "_seq_no": 0,
  "_primary_term": 1,
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE

Indexed document:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "field": "value",
  "inner_pipeline_set": "inner",
  "outer_pipeline_set": "outer"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[remove-processor]]
=== Remove Processor
Removes existing fields. If one field doesn't exist, an exception will be thrown.

[[remove-options]]
.Remove Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | Fields to be removed. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

Here is an example to remove a single field:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "remove": {
    "field": "user_agent"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

To remove multiple fields, you can use the following query:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "remove": {
    "field": ["user_agent", "url"]
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[rename-processor]]
=== Rename Processor
Renames an existing field. If the field doesn't exist or the new name is already used, an exception will be thrown.

[[rename-options]]
.Rename Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to be renamed. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `target_field`    | yes       | -        | The new name of the field. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `ignore_missing`  | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "rename": {
    "field": "provider",
    "target_field": "cloud.provider"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[script-processor]]
=== Script Processor

Allows inline and stored scripts to be executed within ingest pipelines.

See <<modules-scripting-using, How to use scripts>> to learn more about writing scripts. The Script Processor
leverages caching of compiled scripts for improved performance. Since the
script specified within the processor is potentially re-compiled per document, it is important
to understand how script caching works. To learn more about
caching see <<modules-scripting-using-caching, Script Caching>>.

[[script-options]]
.Script Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name                   | Required  | Default    | Description
| `lang`                 | no        | "painless" | The scripting language
| `id`                   | no        | -          | The stored script id to refer to
| `source`               | no        | -          | An inline script to be executed
| `params`               | no        | -          | Script Parameters
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

One of `id` or `source` options must be provided in order to properly reference a script to execute.

You can access the current ingest document from within the script context by using the `ctx` variable.

The following example sets a new field called `field_a_plus_b_times_c` to be the sum of two existing
numeric fields `field_a` and `field_b` multiplied by the parameter param_c:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "script": {
    "lang": "painless",
    "source": "ctx.field_a_plus_b_times_c = (ctx.field_a + ctx.field_b) * params.param_c",
    "params": {
      "param_c": 10
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

It is possible to use the Script Processor to manipulate document metadata like `_index` and `_type` during
ingestion. Here is an example of an Ingest Pipeline that renames the index and type to `my_index` no matter what
was provided in the original index request:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT _ingest/pipeline/my_index
{
    "description": "use index:my_index and type:_doc",
    "processors": [
      {
        "script": {
          "source": """
            ctx._index = 'my_index';
            ctx._type = '_doc';
          """
        }
      }
    ]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE

Using the above pipeline, we can attempt to index a document into the `any_index` index.

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT any_index/_doc/1?pipeline=my_index
{
  "message": "text"
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

The response from the above index request:

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "_index": "my_index",
  "_type": "_doc",
  "_id": "1",
  "_version": 1,
  "result": "created",
  "_shards": {
    "total": 2,
    "successful": 1,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "_seq_no": 0,
  "_primary_term": 1,
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE

In the above response, you can see that our document was actually indexed into `my_index` instead of
`any_index`. This type of manipulation is often convenient in pipelines that have various branches of transformation,
and depending on the progress made, indexed into different indices.

[[set-processor]]
=== Set Processor
Sets one field and associates it with the specified value. If the field already exists,
its value will be replaced with the provided one.

[[set-options]]
.Set Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name       | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field` | yes       | -        | The field to insert, upsert, or update. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `value` | yes       | -        | The value to be set for the field. Supports <<accessing-template-fields,template snippets>>.
| `override` | no        | true     | If processor will update fields with pre-existing non-null-valued field. When set to `false`, such fields will not be touched.
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "set": {
    "field": "host.os.name",
    "value": "{{os}}"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[split-processor]]
=== Split Processor
Splits a field into an array using a separator character. Only works on string fields.

[[split-options]]
.Split Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to split
| `separator`       | yes       | -        | A regex which matches the separator, eg `,` or `\s+`
| `target_field`    | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the split value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing`  | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "split": {
    "field": "my_field",
    "separator": "\\s+" <1>
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE
<1> Treat all consecutive whitespace characters as a single separator

[[sort-processor]]
=== Sort Processor
Sorts the elements of an array ascending or descending.  Homogeneous arrays of numbers will be sorted
numerically, while arrays of strings or heterogeneous arrays of strings + numbers will be sorted lexicographically.
Throws an error when the field is not an array.

[[sort-options]]
.Sort Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The field to be sorted
| `order`           | no        | `"asc"`  | The sort order to use. Accepts `"asc"` or `"desc"`.
| `target_field`    | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the sorted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "sort": {
    "field": "array_field_to_sort",
    "order": "desc"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[trim-processor]]
=== Trim Processor
Trims whitespace from field.

NOTE: This only works on leading and trailing whitespace.

[[trim-options]]
.Trim Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name              | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`           | yes       | -        | The string-valued field to trim whitespace from
| `target_field`    | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the trimmed value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing`  | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "trim": {
    "field": "foo"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[uppercase-processor]]
=== Uppercase Processor
Converts a string to its uppercase equivalent.

[[uppercase-options]]
.Uppercase Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field to make uppercase
| `target_field`   | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "uppercase": {
    "field": "foo"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE

[[urldecode-processor]]
=== URL Decode Processor
URL-decodes a string

[[urldecode-options]]
.URL Decode Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name             | Required  | Default  | Description
| `field`          | yes       | -        | The field to decode
| `target_field`   | no        | `field`  | The field to assign the converted value to, by default `field` is updated in-place
| `ignore_missing` | no        | `false`  | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null`, the processor quietly exits without modifying the document
include::ingest-node-common-processor.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
  "urldecode": {
    "field": "my_url_to_decode"
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------
// NOTCONSOLE