Adding a field name length in index pattern display #74220
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enhancement
New value added to drive a business result
Feature:Data Views
Data Views code and UI - index patterns before 8.0
Icebox
impact:low
Addressing this issue will have a low level of impact on the quality/strength of our product.
loe:small
Small Level of Effort
Team:DataDiscovery
Discover, search (e.g. data plugin and KQL), data views, saved searches. For ES|QL, use Team:ES|QL.
Describe the feature:
Is it possible to add another column with the field name length and sortable so that one can identify if there's some problem with mapping explosion (which usually happens with long field names)
Describe a specific use case for the feature:
If the table can be a data grid with all columns configureable (like kibana discover), that will be even better!
Similarly, Elasticsearch also has an issue on restricting default field name length to try avoiding mapping explosion problem. elastic/elasticsearch#58952
Currently, there's no easy way to sort all the fields from all indices and find out which indices or which fields are problematic which often leads to an unstable cluster. If you save your
GET _mapping
into amapping.json
file, you can use the following jq command to extract the field name length information:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: