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Drop document processor

The drop document processor prevents documents from being indexed when they meet a specific condition, without raising an error.

To configure a condition for dropping documents:

  1. Select CreateCreate processor.
  2. Select Drop document from the Processor menu.
  3. Set the Condition for when you want to drop a document. The
Warning

The default is the always condition. Not setting a specific condition results in every document getting dropped from indexing.

This functionality uses the Elasticsearch drop processor internally, but you configure it in Streamlang. Streamlang doesn’t always have 1:1 parity with the ingest processor options and behavior. Refer to Processor limitations and inconsistencies.