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Probably lots of ways to handle this, depending on the need. By default iiuc it'd ingest as a null. If you want a default value, you can use an expression in the ingestion, eg, using NVL.

Hi Ben, thanks for your answer but wanted to understand priority here, is there a need like if a field(either a dimension/metric) is present in ingestionSpec then that field must be present in kafka message ? (Considering no default value is configured for that field)

Afaik there's no need, we can ingest null values.