# Does index alias work in the tribe node?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-index-alias-work-in-the-tribe-node/36318>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 3, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-index-alias-work-in-the-tribe-node/36318 "2015-12-03T19:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jae/32/791_2.png) [@Jae](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jae)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-index-alias-work-in-the-tribe-node/36318/1 "2015-12-03T19:41:16Z")

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Hi

I am working on creating tribe nodes to search across two data centers but unfortunately, I created all indices with same name. Does index alias work in the tribe node? I am still using old 1.5.2 version. I tried to test with the following situation:

tribe.t1.cluster.name=dc1  
tribe.t2.cluster.name=dc2

In dc1, dc2, index-20151012 is created. I set up index alias in dc1 as index-20151012-dc1 and in dc2 as index-20151012-dc2. Also I tried to query in the tribe node as

curl localhost:9200/index-20151012-dc1/\_search?q=\* but I got the IndexMissingException.

Do you have any idea how to fix this problem instead of changing index name?

Thank you  
Best, Jae

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-index-alias-work-in-the-tribe-node/36318/2 "2017-07-05T23:33:46Z")

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