Investigate updating just the kibana.* field mappings on existing alerts-as-data indices #170341
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Feature:Alerting
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Team:ResponseOps
Label for the ResponseOps team (formerly the Cases and Alerting teams)
Related to: #168959
Given we update existing alerts-as-data indices to mutable fields, it would be worth investigating if we should only update the mapping of those mutable fields (mainly
kibana.*
) to avoid having ECS (and other) mapping conflicts down the road.To have the latest ECS mappings for the newly written alerts, we would have to consider one of the two options (or a combination of them):
Note: If ever an ongoing alert is updated by the framework in an older index, we would be relying implicitly on the
ignore_malformed
capability to prevent errors updating those documents. If there's a way we can make this more explicit, great!The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: