We have an Elastic Search
engine that has been provisioned through App Search
, and has a very large schema (large amount of fields). A lot of these fields are not necessary to the scope of our search requests and are returned in the _ignored
section of the response object. Not only do we not use the _ignored
data, but they are significantly bloating our response object from Elastic which is not ideal. Is there a way to prevent the _ignored
section form being returned as a part of the result from a search request?
_ignored
is metadata field of elasticsearch hence it can not be filter using source filter option.
You need to use Response Filtering using filter_path
parameter in request.
Below is example where it will return only took, _id, _score, _source in search response.
POST index_name/_search?filter_path=took,hits.hits._id,hits.hits._score,hits.hits._source
{
"query": {
"exists": {
"field": "_ignored"
}
}
}