# Alias in percolator

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-in-percolator/7229>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-in-percolator/7229 "2012-04-04T18:36:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Onilton\_Maciel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/onilton_maciel/32/2500_2.png) [@Onilton\_Maciel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Onilton_Maciel)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-in-percolator/7229/1 "2012-04-04T18:36:04Z")

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When I register a query in percolator with an index alias alias1 ( that  
points to index1). Shouldn't the documents submitted to index1 match also  
the percolator queries registered on alias1?

Or it was made not to match alias?

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-in-percolator/7229/2 "2012-04-05T21:00:28Z")

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The percolator does not work with aliases.

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Ivan

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Onilton Maciel [oniltonmaciel@gmail.com](mailto:oniltonmaciel@gmail.com) wrote:

> When I register a query in percolator with an index alias alias1 ( that  
> points to index1). Shouldn't the documents submitted to index1 match also  
> the percolator queries registered on alias1?
> 
> Or it was made not to match alias?

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**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, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-in-percolator/7229/3 "2017-07-06T03:33:27Z")

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