# CCR - Follow multiple leader indexes with same mapping
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-follow-multiple-leader-indexes-with-same-mapping/206839
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ccr-cross-cluster-replication
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-follow-multiple-leader-indexes-with-same-mapping/206839 "2019-11-06T16:47:14Z")
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### Author:  [@JakeSvajdlenka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JakeSvajdlenka)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-follow-multiple-leader-indexes-with-same-mapping/206839/1 "2019-11-06T16:47:14Z")
Currently, follower indexes can only follow one leader index. Will it ever be possible for a follower index to follow multiple leader indexes (if the leader indexes have identical mappings/settings)? or will there ever be a solution for an active fail-over scenario?
With our use-case being for an active fail-over setup, we're leveraging a Bi-Directional approach to accomplish what we're needing, but it isn't ideal. We currently have two data centers we can input data from (we have a main campus that acts as a primary and we switch services to run out of the other campus during major maintenance to avoid downtime) and we'd like to be able to have a data center hosted in Azure (for foreign web sites and to help with latency) that will be read-only and collect data that was input from either input campus
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### Author:  [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-follow-multiple-leader-indexes-with-same-mapping/206839/2 "2019-11-16T01:11:47Z")
> [@JakeSvajdlenka](#):
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> Will it ever be possible for a follower index to follow multiple leader indexes (if the leader indexes have identical mappings/settings)?
This is not on the roadmap, and I do not expect that it will be. It would require a fundamental re-architecture of our entire indexing/replication stack.
> [@JakeSvajdlenka](#):
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> We currently have two data centers we can input data from (we have a main campus that acts as a primary and we switch services to run out of the other campus during major maintenance to avoid downtime) and we'd like to be able to have a data center hosted in Azure (for foreign web sites and to help with latency) that will be read-only and collect data that was input from either input campus
Maybe I'm not understanding the use-case, have you considered replicating from both campuses (to separate indices) and putting an alias on top of the two indices?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ccr-follow-multiple-leader-indexes-with-same-mapping/206839/3 "2019-12-14T01:11:52Z")
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