The Big Data in Real World team builds a pipeline:
A pipeline is a definition of a series of processors that are to be executed in the same order as they are declared.
Think of a processor as a series of instructions that will be executed.
In this post we are going to create a pipeline to add a field named doc_timestamp to all the documents that are added to the index.
Click through for the process. In Elasticsearch, ingest pipelines aren’t for moving data but rather for performing some common operations or tasks prior to indexing the data.