Pipeline Definition | Elasticsearch Guide [5.0] (original) (raw)

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A pipeline is a definition of a series of processors that are to be executed in the same order as they are declared. A pipeline consists of two main fields: a descriptionand a list of processors:

{ "description" : "...", "processors" : [ ... ] }

The description is a special field to store a helpful description of what the pipeline does.

The processors parameter defines a list of processors to be executed in order.