How to stop logstash from creating a default mapping in ElasticSearch

Question

I am using logstash to feed logs into ElasticSearch. I am configuring logstash output as:

input {
file {
            path => \"/tmp/foo.log\"
            code         


        

Answer 1

Index templates can help you. Please see this jira for more details. You can create index templates with wildcard support to match an index name and put your default mappings.