# Document Overwrites

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 18, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005 "2018-10-18T13:17:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005/1 "2018-10-18T13:17:21Z")

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Hi,  
If an update to elasticsearch has a duplicate document id and the record gets overwritten, does the overwrite event get logged?

Regards,  
D

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005/2 "2018-10-18T13:20:05Z")

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No, not that I am aware of.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005/3 "2018-11-13T13:53:40Z")

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@Christian_Dahlqvist Can elasticsearch be configured to reject overwrites?

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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:** [December 11, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-overwrites/153005/4 "2018-12-11T13:53:46Z")

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