This content applies to: {es-badge} {obs-badge} {sec-badge}
{transforms-cap} enable you to convert existing {es} indices into summarized indices, which provide opportunities for new insights and analytics.
For example, you can use {transforms} to pivot your data into entity-centric indices that summarize the behavior of users or sessions or other entities in your data. Or you can use {transforms} to find the latest document among all the documents that have a certain unique key.
For more information, check out:
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{ref}/transform-usage.html[When to use transforms]
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{ref}/transform-alerts.html[Generating alerts for transforms]
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{ref}/transform-scale.html[Transforms at scale]
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{ref}/transform-checkpoints.html[How checkpoints work]
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{ref}/transform-examples.html[Examples]
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{ref}/transform-painless-examples.html[Painless examples]
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{ref}/transform-troubleshooting.html[Troubleshooting transforms]
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{ref}/transform-limitations.html[Limitations]
In {project-settings} → {manage-app} → {transforms-app}, you can create, edit, stop, start, reset, and delete {transforms}:
When you create a {transform}, you must choose between two types: pivot and latest. You must also decide whether you want the {transform} to run once or continuously. For more information, go to {ref}/transform-overview.html[{transforms-cap} overview].