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Note for mv_expand tiebreaker use#5208

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Requested upon discussion in issue #252936.

When mv_expand is used, all documents added to indices share the same _id and @timestamp. This leads to indeterministic ordering when ElasticSearch is pulling documents. There is no tiebreaker, so we get unpredictable results. Here we add a note to the docs to encourage users to add a tiebreaker and avoid this behaviour.

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Cursor with claude-open-4.6-high to refine and confirm what I had already written.

@hannahbrooks hannahbrooks requested a review from a team as a code owner February 18, 2026 20:21
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@hannahbrooks hannahbrooks changed the title added note Note for mv_expand tiebreaker use Feb 18, 2026
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Left a minor comment. Thanks again and congrats on your first docs contribution!

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