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Update existing dataedit
You might want to update documents already ingested to Elasticsearch, e.g. if you your service name was set incorrectly, or you need to update a tag you have set.
You can update existing data by using the Update By Query API.
Rename a serviceedit
For exampe, if you want to change the service name reported for your monitored data, you can do that by sending the following request:
POST /apm-*/_update_by_query { "query": { "term": { "context.service.name": { "value": "old-service-name" } } }, "script": { "source": "ctx._source.context.service.name = 'new-service-name'", "lang": "painless" } }
Also check out how to change the service name for newly collected documents in the APM agent configuration accordingly.