# Comparing files between indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332 "2019-03-14T12:11:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![saqibjavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@saqibjavid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saqibjavid)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/1 "2019-03-14T12:11:55Z")

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I have 2 version of about 100 files stored in 2 different elastic search indices, I want to compare the files in both the indices and need to visualize the differences in kibana. Is it possible?  
Please give me some suggestions!!!

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/2 "2019-03-14T13:34:30Z")

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Not really possible.

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**Author:** ![saqibjavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@saqibjavid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saqibjavid)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/3 "2019-03-15T07:03:54Z")

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Thankyou  
Is there any alternate method?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/4 "2019-03-15T07:45:33Z")

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At search time?

I guess you can scroll the source index and for each document search in the other index?

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**Author:** ![saqibjavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@saqibjavid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saqibjavid)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/5 "2019-03-15T09:04:17Z")

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ok Thankyou very much!!!

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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 12, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/comparing-files-between-indices/172332/6 "2019-04-12T09:04:22Z")

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