From 4940269c3ef082ca0534ffd86fb775d30e996725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Tedor Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:26:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add note regarding using cross-cluster replication This commit adds a note to the docs template for the index templates that explains that changes are needed if a user wants to replicate an index using cross-cluster replication. --- libbeat/docs/template-config.asciidoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/libbeat/docs/template-config.asciidoc b/libbeat/docs/template-config.asciidoc index 0ab1c35681ee..8338ed334672 100644 --- a/libbeat/docs/template-config.asciidoc +++ b/libbeat/docs/template-config.asciidoc @@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ setup.template.settings: index.number_of_replicas: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +NOTE: If you want to use {stack-ov}/xpack-ccr.html[{ccr}] to replicate {beatname_uc} +indices to another cluster, you will need to add additional template settings to +{stack-ov}/ccr-requirements.html#ccr-overview-beats[enable soft deletes] on the +underlying indices. + *`setup.template.settings._source`*:: A dictionary of settings for the `_source` field. For the available settings, please see the Elasticsearch {elasticsearch}/mapping-source-field.html[reference]. +