stack es helpers bulk-ingest cli command

elastic stack es helpers bulk-ingest --index <index> [options]
		

Bulk-ingest documents from file, directory, or stdin with automatic batching, concurrency, and retries.

Behaviour flags:

--dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

--index string required

Target index

--data-file string

Path to data file (NDJSON, JSON array, or CSV)

--data-dir string

Path to directory of data files to ingest

--glob string

Glob pattern for --data-dir file matching (default: **/.json, or **/.csv when --source-format csv)

--no-recursive

Do not recurse into subdirectories when using --data-dir

--source-format enum

Input file format: csv, or json-based (ndjson vs json array is auto-detected from content; "ndjson" and "json" behave identically here)

Values: ndjson, json, csv

Default: ndjson

--csv-delimiter string

CSV column delimiter (default: ",")

--csv-columns string

Comma-separated list of column names (overrides CSV header row)

--skip-header

Skip the first row of a CSV file

--flush-bytes number

Batch size threshold in bytes

Default: 5242880

--concurrency number

Number of parallel bulk requests

Default: 5

--retries number

Max retries per failed batch

Default: 3

--retry-delay number

Initial retry delay in ms (doubles each attempt)

Default: 1000

--pipeline string

Ingest pipeline name

--routing string

Custom routing value

--input-file string

path to a JSON file to use as command input

--dry-run

validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)

--no-validate

skip input validation and send the request as-is

--output-fields string

comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)

--output-template string

Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")

--json

output as JSON