_ignored field

The _ignored field indexes and stores the names of every field in a document that has been ignored when the document was indexed. This can, for example, be the case:

• When the field was malformed and ignore_malformed was turned on.
• When a keyword field’s value exceeds its optional ignore_above setting.
• When index.mapping.total_fields.limit has been reached and index.mapping.total_fields.ignore_dynamic_beyond_limit is set to true.
• When a field in a columnar index configured with doc_values.on_failure: ignore receives a document that violates its multi_value: false or nullability: false constraint.

For more index setting details, refer to Mapping limit settings.

This field is searchable with term, terms and exists queries, and is returned as part of the search hits.

For instance the below query matches all documents that have one or more fields that got ignored:

				GET _search
					{
  "query": {
    "exists": {
      "field": "_ignored"
    }
  }
}
		

Similarly, the below query finds all documents whose @timestamp field was ignored at index time:

				GET _search
					{
  "query": {
    "term": {
      "_ignored": "@timestamp"
    }
  }
}
		

Since 8.15.0, the _ignored field supports aggregations as well. For example, the below query finds all fields that got ignored:

				GET _search
					{
  "aggs": {
    "ignored_fields": {
      "terms": {
         "field": "_ignored"
      }
    }
  }
}