Disabling the Elasticsearch _source field
The _source field contains the original JSON document body of an Elaticsearch document. It is not indexed nor searchable, but it can be returned when executing fetch requests.
Keeping the _source field saved with the document comes with substantial storage overhead. Disabling the _source field is easy and does come with consequences. Think carefully before disabling it. Disabling it will also disable these features.
- The update, update_by_query and reindex APIs.
- On the fly highlighting.
- The ability to reindex from one Elasticsearch index to another, either to change mappings or analysis, or to upgrade an index to a new major version.
- The ability to debug queries or aggregations by viewing the original document used at index time.
- Potentially in the future, the ability to repair index corruption automatically.
Disabling the _source field can be done using an Index Template.
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