Missing documentation for YAML config of elasticsearch output

[sparrowt]

It seems to be difficult to discover how to use the recommended YAML configuration to output to Elasticsearch.

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch only has a "classic" config example with no YAML equivalent that I can see, whereas others like this one have both fluent-bit.conf and fluent-bit.yaml examples.

It's also unclear what the name of the output should be because https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch says it is the es output plugin and the (classic) example has Name es but on this page https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/administration/configuring-fluent-bit/yaml/pipeline-section it says:

Common output plugins include stdout, elasticsearch, and kafka.

so in fluent-bit.yaml should it be name: es or name: elasticsearch?

[sparrowt]

P.S. the answer is it should be name: es and trying to use name: elasticsearch results in:

[2025/02/28 15:09:49] [error] [config] section 'elasticsearch' tried to instance a plugin name that doesn't exist

however the docs could be clearer.

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[sparrowt]

In general no activity doesn't mean that missing documentation has written itself so I'm not a fan of such bots.

Nevertheless, in this case it happens to have been solved by another PR.

So this:

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch only has a "classic" config example with no YAML equivalent that I can see, whereas others like this one have both fluent-bit.conf and fluent-bit.yaml examples.

is no longer true because there is an example which was added by #1750 to fix #1723 which is a (broader) duplicate of this ticket.

So as it happens this is now resolved 🎉