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How to extend what data is published to Elasticsearch

esilkensen — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:52:11 GMT

Is there a recommended way to extend what data is published to Elasticsearch?For example, when reporting on processes in Kibana I'd like to include a user's name. Is there a way to extend JSON such as{ "_index": "activiti_tenant_1", "_type": "process-instance-activities", "_id": "20024", "_scor

Re: How to extend what data is published to Elasticsearch

gdharley — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:44:26 GMT

Since the Elasticsearch/Lucene event log is populated from the ACT_EVT_LOG table, the easiest thing to do would be overload the AbstractDatabaseEventLoggerEventHandler class (taken from the community engine code) to set a username rather than userid.

This will go into the data element for the event and get parsed in the Elastic event handlers.