[event log] use require_alias
when indexing event log documents
#93971
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estimate:small
Small Estimated Level of Effort
Feature:EventLog
resilience
Issues related to Platform resilience in terms of scale, performance & backwards compatibility
Team:ResponseOps
Label for the ResponseOps team (formerly the Cases and Alerting teams)
In the past, when our event log bootstrapping code was not robust enough, we would occasionally have Kibana start with the event log alias not set up, and then subsequent indexing of events would end up writing the documents to an index with the name of the alias. Very problematic.
We've since made the bootstrapping code more robust, but as an additional safety check, we could use the
require_alias
option to make sure we never create an index with the name of the alias. I assume there is some way of using this with bulk requests ...The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: