# Does shard allocation filtering work on aliases?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-shard-allocation-filtering-work-on-aliases/9612>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 7, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-shard-allocation-filtering-work-on-aliases/9612 "2012-11-07T23:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@T\_Vinod\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/T_Vinod_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-shard-allocation-filtering-work-on-aliases/9612/1 "2012-11-07T23:27:09Z")

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does index.routing.allocation.include.tag setting work on aliased indexes?  
i havent tried it but was wondering if it will work.

thanks

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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 6, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-shard-allocation-filtering-work-on-aliases/9612/2 "2017-07-06T03:05:35Z")

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