# Different document 'type' for different servers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733 "2017-07-11T23:26:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bob04](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob04)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733/1 "2017-07-11T23:26:23Z")

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Hi. I collect multiple logs from multiple machines - it's about 15-20 GB daily.

I am wondering if I should create different `index` for every server of for every file to make searching faster.  
Should I also create separate `type` for every server?

Now all my records have `_type=log` and index`logstash-YYY.MM.dd`

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733/2 "2017-07-12T01:51:43Z")

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> [@Bob04](#):
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> Should I also create separate type for every server?

No, just use the hostname to filter on, you don't need to get much more complex than that at these volumes.

If a server was doing 10's of GBs, then you'd consider moving it.

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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:** [July 12, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733/3 "2017-07-12T02:41:35Z")

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Adding to this that types will be removed in the future so I would yet use one single type per index.

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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:** [August 9, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-document-type-for-different-servers/92733/4 "2017-08-09T02:41:58Z")

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