Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/832#discussion_r149428796 --- Diff: metron-platform/metron-elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/elasticsearch/dao/ElasticsearchDao.java --- @@ -234,26 +366,43 @@ public synchronized void init(AccessConfig config) { if(this.client == null) { this.client = ElasticsearchUtils.getClient(config.getGlobalConfigSupplier().get(), config.getOptionalSettings()); this.accessConfig = config; + this.columnMetadataDao = new ElasticsearchColumnMetadataDao(this.client.admin(), Collections.singletonList(".kibana")); --- End diff -- I'm almost always in favor of having hard coded things passed in via config files. It gets us out of jams and almost every time I've convinced myself that it's not necessary, it totally is. How convinced are you that we are only ever going to need one ignored index? If you have doubts, then I'd probably add something to the `application.yml` which gets set in the AccessConfig object when we set up the index in the IndexConfig from `metron-rest`.
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