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- Add the upstream parameter to the configuration table.
- Add an Upstream servers section: round-robin node selection,
  the parameters a node can set, and the parameters that apply
  to every node.
- Cover startup failures, values that aren't validated,
  credential precedence, AWS role handling, relative path
  resolution by version, and partial bulk retries across nodes.
- Add an upstream file example in YAML and classic formats.
- Documents fluent/fluent-bit#11647.

Related: fluent/fluent-bit#12790 (partial bulk retries in upstream mode re-send a payload formatted for another node).

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The Elasticsearch output documentation adds the upstream parameter and describes upstream file formats, node selection, settings, validation, retry behavior, and configuration examples. The existing bulk-retry description remains unchanged.

Changes: Elasticsearch upstream documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document upstream routing pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch.md	Documents the upstream parameter, node selection, upstream file behavior, per-node settings, validation, retry behavior, and YAML and classic configuration examples. The bulk-retry description is unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · up to 28204

This documentation adds the Elasticsearch upstream section. Its retry description should also say that the receiving node's ingest pipeline applies to a retried document. Without that, readers may not expect retried documents to be transformed or rerouted differently. The omission is small and easy to fix, and nothing at runtime changes.

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The title names the Elasticsearch output documentation change and the new upstream servers coverage. The raw summary confirms the PR adds an upstream option entry in the configuration table and a new Upstream servers section in pipeline/outputs/elasticsearch.md. The title follows the docs prefix convention and is specific, so the primary change is clear.

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Do not guarantee a different node on retry.

The rotation cursor is shared by flushes. If a batch goes to node A and another flush uses node B before the retry, the retry selects node A again. Describe selection as the next node in the shared rotation, rather than the next node after the batch’s first attempt. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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- Line 133: Update the startup-failure sentence about `aws_auth` in the
Elasticsearch output documentation to state that enabling `aws_auth` requires
`aws_region` to be set on the output, even when every node sets its own
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- Line 134: Update the Elasticsearch documentation note about node-level
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`write_operation` set to `update` or `upsert` requires output-level `id_key` or
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- Line 139: Update the reduced-payload retry descriptions in the Bulk retries
section to qualify them with the version that introduced that behavior,
verifying the version against source first. Describe v5.1.0 behavior separately:
an errors:true response retries the whole chunk, reformats it for the next
upstream node, and can duplicate already accepted writes across clusters;
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consistent ID-generating settings across nodes and the same destination index,
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- Around line 141-142: Update the Bulk retries documentation to clarify that
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