# Elasticsearch Ingest Pipeline Index Routing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ingest-pipeline-index-routing/316474>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ingest-pipeline\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ingest-pipeline-index-routing/316474 "2022-10-12T22:06:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-ingest-pipeline-index-routing/316474/6 "2022-10-13T12:59:16Z")

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> [@leandrojmp](#):
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> a stream in the value for the `_index`, then it will be sent to this data stream and elasticsearch will automatically write it to the current backing index.

Thx this makes sense. I'll try it out.

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