Rename fields from events

The rename processor specifies a list of fields to rename. Under the fields key, each entry contains a from: old-key and a to: new-key pair, where:

from is the original field name. It’s supported to use @metadata. prefix for from and rename keys in the event metadata instead of event fields.
to is the target field name

The rename processor cannot be used to overwrite fields. To overwrite fields either first rename the target field, or use the drop_fields processor to drop the field and then rename the field.

Tip

You can rename fields to resolve field name conflicts. For example, if an event has two fields, c and c.b (where b is a subfield of c), assigning scalar values results in an Elasticsearch error at ingest time. The assignment {"c": 1, "c.b": 2} would result in an error because c is an object and cannot be assigned a scalar value. To prevent this conflict, rename c to c.value before assigning values.

processors:
  - rename:
      fields:
        - from: "a.g"
          to: "e.d"
      ignore_missing: false
      fail_on_error: true

The rename processor has the following configuration settings:

ignore_missing: (Optional) If set to true, no error is logged in case a key which should be renamed is missing. Default is false.
fail_on_error: (Optional) If set to true, in case of an error the renaming of fields is stopped and the original event is returned. If set to false, renaming continues also if an error happened during renaming. Default is true.

See Conditions for a list of supported conditions.

You can specify multiple rename processors under the processors section.