# (Bug?) Multi Index search with exclusion aliased indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bug-multi-index-search-with-exclusion-aliased-indices/149116>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 19, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bug-multi-index-search-with-exclusion-aliased-indices/149116 "2018-09-19T11:33:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@cleaner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cleaner)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bug-multi-index-search-with-exclusion-aliased-indices/149116/1 "2018-09-19T11:33:43Z")

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Hi,

We are running elastic 6.3.1. For our indicies are created aliases, let's say:

alias.transaction-1 for transaction-1  
alias.transaction-2 for transaction-2

and so on.

Multindex search is used to find data in all indices excluding some specific ones, i.e.

> POST alias.transaction\*,-alias.transaction-1,-alias.transaction-5/\_search ....

The issue is when using alias **exclusion** does not work. But works if I use direct index name ( without alias):

> POST alias.transaction\*, -transaction-1,-transaction-5/\_search ...

Is it bug? Or do I miss something?

Thanks!

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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:** [October 17, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bug-multi-index-search-with-exclusion-aliased-indices/149116/2 "2018-10-17T11:33:50Z")

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