Exclude system/hidden indices/aliases (those starting with a period)
chrispappas opened this issue · comments
Is your feature request related to a problem?
The Aliases and Indices lists are overwhelmed by system/hidden items prefixed with a . character. This makes it more difficult than it needs to be, to find the items one is interested in. The Advanced config tab allows setting multiple wildcards, but I don't see any way to exclude indices/aliases following a pattern.
Describe the solution you'd like
Either offer a checkbox or control to specifically exclude items by a pattern, or support regex in the option inputs (so one can just use [a-z0-9]+ to only include items beginning with alphanumeric characters).
Additional context
The Advanced config tab:
What my indices/aliases look like (I haven't even created any indices or aliases yet!):
Thanks for the suggestion. I will add the exclude pattern in the next update.
I found that this feature already exists. You can exclude indices and aliases with a pattern by using a - sign. For example, indexToInclude,-indexToExclude. In your case, -.* should help.
This is great, thank you for adding it to the hint under the filter input boxes. Really helpful to have it there, I didn't know we could do this. Love being able to filter those out. Thanks for making a really great tool, I use this almost every working day ❤️