Can't create two Types to same index elasticsearch & Kibana

Question

I'm new in elasticsearch and kibana

I'm doing some exercices with elasticsearch (create index,types and documents..)

I created an index 'business' with type 'building'

put /business/building/217 {   "adresse":"11 Pen Ave",   "floors":5,   "offices":7,   "loc":{     "lat":40.693479,     "lon":-73.983854   } } 

it works funny but when I tried to create another type like this

put /business/employee/330 {   "name":"Richard Bell",   "title":"Senior Accountant",   "salar_usd":115000.00,   "hiredate":"Jan 19, 2013" } 

then I got this error

{   "error": {     "root_cause": [       {         "type": "illegal_argument_exception",         "reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [business] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [employee, building]"       }     ],     "type": "illegal_argument_exception",     "reason": "Rejecting mapping update to [business] as the final mapping would have more than 1 type: [employee, building]"   },   "status": 400 } 

Answer 1

You're probably running Elasticsearch version 6 and as of that version ES doesn't allow you to create more than one type in any given index.

You need to store each of your document type inside a dedicated index, e.g.

PUT /business/building/217 {   "adresse":"11 Pen Ave",   "floors":5,   "offices":7,   "loc":{     "lat":40.693479,     "lon":-73.983854   } }  PUT /employees/employee/330 {   "name":"Richard Bell",   "title":"Senior Accountant",   "salar_usd":115000.00,   "hiredate":"Jan 19, 2013" } 

Answer 2

see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/removal-of-types.html for more.

Elasticsearch 6.x Indices created in 6.x only allow a single-type per index. Any name can be used for the type, but there can be only one. The preferred type name is _doc, so that index APIs have the same path as they will have in 7.0: PUT {index}/_doc/{id} and POST {index}/_doc