From 875554ec1cc2e1a763b4dfa579ebf857181ff54c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ponnuswamy, Saravana" <saravana.ponnuswamy@rakuten.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:28:04 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] added fix to support es5

---
 elastalert/create_index.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/elastalert/create_index.py b/elastalert/create_index.py
index 185ad3c83..4973b0fd3 100644
--- a/elastalert/create_index.py
+++ b/elastalert/create_index.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def main():
         print('Index ' + index + ' already exists. Skipping index creation.')
         return None
 
-    es.indices.create(index)
+    es.indices.index(index)
     # To avoid a race condition. TODO: replace this with a real check
     time.sleep(2)
     es.indices.put_mapping(index=index, doc_type='elastalert', body=es_mapping)