Keeping the .enrich index updated to source index elasticsearch

Question

I'm using the new enrich API of Elasticsearch (ver 7.11), to my understanding, I need to execute the policy "PUT /_enrich/policy/my-policy/_execute" each time when the source index changed, which lead to the creation of a new.enrich index. is there an option to make it happen automatically and avoid of index creation on every change of the source index?

Answer 1

This is not (yet) supported and there have been other reports of similar needs.

It seems to be complex to provide the ability to regularly update an enrich index based on a changing source index and the issue above explains why.

That feature might be available some day, but it's not yet in the works it seems, even though I agree it would be super useful.