# Alias creation getting slower **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 12, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-creation-getting-slower/19224 "2014-08-12T09:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RanjithVenkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c5a1d2/32.png) [@RanjithVenkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RanjithVenkat)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-creation-getting-slower/19224/1 "2014-08-12T09:21:28Z")
Hi, We are using Elasticsearch for our search application. currently we have 3 master nodes and 5 data nodes in our cluster with 160 indices with 5 shards each and replica of 2. Currently we have 20k users. We will create alias for each user with alias name as user id. As the number of alias gets increased, time to add alias also getting increased consistently. Now aliascreation takes upto 10 secs for most of the time. Is there any workaround for this. PS : found similar case here [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Adding-1mln-aliases-is-really-slow-td4051206.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Adding-1mln-aliases-is-really-slow-td4051206.html). But no solution for this. Thanks in advance Ranjith Venkatesan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b18dd013-b857-480d-b6c8-e6123239bd23%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b18dd013-b857-480d-b6c8-e6123239bd23%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-creation-getting-slower/19224/2 "2017-07-06T01:09:17Z")