# Can we have alias to cluster ID in the URL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474 "2018-03-25T09:15:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![D.J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@D.J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/D.J)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474/1 "2018-03-25T09:15:50Z")

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Hi,  
we have setup a wildcard dns to the proxy endpoints.  
but still , must all client connect to something like [http://eb1f0e8c82dc4425b32250fb5b3d0ec5](http://eb1f0e8c82dc4425b32250fb5b3d0ec5).... ??  
and for Kibana we must use something different ?

```
can we have some alias (somewhere ) when accessing a cluster ? 
like : http://my_cluster_alias.<cluster endpoint>:9200 .....

```

Thanx

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**Author:** ![pmoust](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmoust/32/11656_2.png) [@pmoust](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmoust)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474/2 "2018-03-25T09:34:24Z")

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Hello @D.J,

Currently, ECE provides (Elasticsearch & Kibana) URL endpoints in a UUID & ECE region domain concatenated fashion as you describe.

We do have plans in our roadmap to support cluster aliases in a near term minor release, but there's no hard ETA to be shared at this time.

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**Author:** ![iremmats](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iremmats/32/55316_2.png) [@iremmats](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iremmats)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474/3 "2018-03-31T09:50:32Z")

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We have the same request. Our solution for this requires a few things in our nginx configuration.

```
      server {
          server_name myclusteralias.mydomain.io;
      location / {
		proxy_pass http://proxies:9200;
		proxy_http_version 1.1;
		proxy_set_header Connection "Keep-Alive";
		proxy_set_header Proxy-Connection "Keep-Alive";
		proxy_set_header Host clusterid.mydomain.io;
	}
```

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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:** [April 14, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-have-alias-to-cluster-id-in-the-url/125474/4 "2018-04-14T09:50:40Z")

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