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Terminology

  • connector client - specific light-weight connector implementation, open-code. Connector clients can be built by Elastic or Community.
  • native connector - a connector client built and supported by Elastic, made available by default on Elastic Cloud.
  • connector service - the app that runs the asynchronous loop that calls Elasticsearch on a regular basis to check whether syncs need to happen.
  • connector packages - a previous version of the connector clients specific to Workplace Search. Refer to the 8.3 branch if you're looking for connector packages. Also, read more about them in the custom connector packages guide.
  • data source - file/database/service that provides data to be ingested into Elasticsearch.
  • connector index - .elastic-connectors, the index to hold connector definitions, e.g. name, service type, configuration, scheduling, etc..
  • connector job index - .elastic-connectors-sync-jobs, the index to hold sync job history.
  • connector content index - The index to hold data for a connector. It has prefix search-, and is set in index_name of connector index.