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Ingest processors

Ingest processors are a core component of ingest pipelines. They preprocess documents before indexing. For example, you can remove fields, extract values from text, convert data formats, or append additional information.

OpenSearch provides a standard set of ingest processors within your OpenSearch installation. For a list of processors available in OpenSearch, use the Nodes Info API operation:

GET /_nodes/ingest?filter_path=nodes.*.ingest.processors

To set up and deploy ingest processors, make sure you have the necessary permissions and access rights. See Security plugin REST API to learn more.

Supported processors

Processor types and their required or optional parameters vary depending on your specific use case. OpenSearch supports the following ingest processors. For tutorials on using these processors in an OpenSerch pipeline, go to each processor’s respective documentation.

Processor type Description
append Adds one or more values to a field in a document.
bytes Converts a human-readable byte value to its value in bytes.
community_id Generates a community ID flow hash algorithm for the network flow tuples.
convert Changes the data type of a field in a document.
copy Copies an entire object in an existing field to another field.
csv Extracts CSVs and stores them as individual fields in a document.
date Parses dates from fields and then uses the date or timestamp as the timestamp for a document.
date_index_name Indexes documents into time-based indexes based on a date or timestamp field in a document.
dissect Extracts structured fields from a text field using a defined pattern.
dot_expander Expands a field with dots into an object field.
drop Drops a document without indexing it or raising any errors.
fail Raises an exception and stops the execution of a pipeline.
foreach Allows for another processor to be applied to each element of an array or an object field in a document.
geoip Adds information about the geographical location of an IP address.
geojson-feature Indexes GeoJSON data into a geospatial field.
grok Parses and structures unstructured data using pattern matching.
gsub Replaces or deletes substrings within a string field of a document.
html_strip Removes HTML tags from a text field and returns the plain text content.
ip2geo Adds information about the geographical location of an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
join Concatenates each element of an array into a single string using a separator character between each element.
json Converts a JSON string into a structured JSON object.
kv Automatically parses key-value pairs in a field.
lowercase Converts text in a specific field to lowercase letters.
pipeline Runs an inner pipeline.
remove Removes fields from a document.
remove_by_pattern Removes fields from a document by field pattern.
rename Renames an existing field.
script Runs an inline or stored script on incoming documents.
set Sets the value of a field to a specified value.
sort Sorts the elements of an array in ascending or descending order.
sparse_encoding Generates a sparse vector/token and weights from text fields for neural sparse search using sparse retrieval.
split Splits a field into an array using a separator character.
text_chunking Splits long documents into smaller chunks.
text_embedding Generates vector embeddings from text fields for semantic search.
text_image_embedding Generates combined vector embeddings from text and image fields for multimodal neural search.
trim Removes leading and trailing white space from a string field.
uppercase Converts text in a specific field to uppercase letters.
urldecode Decodes a string from URL-encoded format.
user_agent Extracts details from the user agent sent by a browser to its web requests.
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