# Open Distro for Elasticsearch does not use template in index creation **URL:** \ **Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana\ **Created:** [August 19, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/open-distro-for-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/3548 "2020-08-19T20:50:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hweber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@hweber](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/hweber)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/open-distro-for-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/3548/1 "2020-08-19T20:50:19Z")
I am using Open Distro for Elasticsearch, version 1.9.0. I executed ```auto curl -ivvk -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X PUT "https://localhost:9200/_template/test_template" -d ' { "index_patterns": ["test-*"], "template": { "settings": { "number_of_shards": 1, "index.refresh_interval": "5s" }, "mappings": { "properties": { "status": { "type": "keyword" }, "message": { "type": "text" } } } } }' HTTP/1.1 200 OK {"acknowledged":true} curl -ivvk -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X GET "https://localhost:9200/_cat/templates" HTTP/1.1 200 OK [{"name":"test_template","index_patterns":"[test-*]","order":"0","version":null,"composed_of":""}] ``` I then created the index, test-1, with a deliberate attempt to violate the intended mapping of **status** to keyword, by assigning an integer value to it: ```auto curl -ivvk -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -u username:password -X POST "https://localhost:9200/test-1/_create/1" -d ' { "status": 7, "message": "This is a test." }' HTTP/1.1 201 Created {"_index":"test-1","_type":"_doc","_id":"1","_version":1,"result":"created","_shards":{"total":2,"successful":1,"failed":0},"_seq_no":0,"_primary_term":1} ``` When I inspected the mapping that was applied to test-1, I saw: ```auto curl -ivvk -u username:password -H "Accept: application/json" "https://localhost:9200/test-1/_mapping?pretty" HTTP/1.1 200 { "test-1" : { "mappings" : { "properties" : { "message" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "status" : { "type" : "long" } } } } } ``` I realized the template was ignored since status had type, long, instead of keyword. Can someone tell me what I should be doing? ---
**Author:** ![stmx38](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/stmx38/32/4354_2.png) [@stmx38](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/stmx38)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/open-distro-for-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/3548/3 "2020-08-20T11:11:25Z")
Hello @hweber, I tried to follow your steps and did just a first one. After I tried to see created template: #### Create template ```auto curl -ivvk -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X PUT "http://localhost:9200/_template/test_template" -d ' { "index_patterns": ["test-*"], "template": { "settings": { "number_of_shards": 1, "index.refresh_interval": "5s" }, "mappings": { "properties": { "status": { "type": "keyword" }, "message": { "type": "text" } } } } }' ``` #### Get template ```auto curl http://localhost:9200/_template/test_template?pretty { "test_template" : { "order" : 0, "index_patterns" : [ "test-*" ], "settings" : { }, "mappings" : { }, "aliases" : { } } } ``` It is Open Distro 1.7.0. We have some templates and they works but I created one from the file using the following steps: ### Create template json `vi nginx-access.json` ```auto { "order" : 0, "version" : 60001, "index_patterns" : [ "nginx-access*" ], "settings" : { "index" : { "number_of_shards" : "1", "refresh_interval" : "5s" } }, "mappings" : { "dynamic_templates" : [ { "message_field" : { "path_match" : "message", "mapping" : { "norms" : false, "type" : "text" }, "match_mapping_type" : "string" } }, { "string_fields" : { "mapping" : { "norms" : false, "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "ignore_above" : 256, "type" : "keyword" } } }, "match_mapping_type" : "string", "match" : "*" } } ], "properties" : { "@timestamp" : { "type" : "date" }, "@version" : { "type" : "keyword" }, "geoip" : { "dynamic" : true, "properties" : { "ip" : { "type" : "ip" }, "latitude" : { "type" : "half_float" }, "location" : { "type" : "geo_point" }, "longitude" : { "type" : "half_float" } } }, "ng_real_ip" : { "type" : "ip" }, "ng_remote_addr" : { "type" : "ip" }, "ng_request_time" : { "type" : "long" }, "ng_request_length" : { "type" : "long" }, "ng_bytes_sent" : { "type" : "long" }, "ng_upstream_connect_time" : { "type" : "long" }, "ng_upstream_response_time" : { "type" : "long" } } }, "aliases" : { } } } ``` ### Upload template `curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/_template/nginx-access?pretty -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @nginx-access.json` I want to say that it works and in such a case we just should set it correctly via request, like you do it. ---
**Author:** ![hweber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@hweber](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/hweber)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/open-distro-for-elasticsearch-does-not-use-template-in-index-creation/3548/4 "2020-08-20T13:30:05Z")
Thank you! It appears that the “template” name/value in my test\_template caused the problem. When I removed it to make it look like your nginx-access.json it worked.