# Elasticsearch input plugin index date
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786 "2018-08-23T18:54:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Scoyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scoyle)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786/1 "2018-08-23T18:54:11Z")
Hello,
im trying to get the elasticsearch input plugin to look at the previous days index. it seems to only like the wildcard or a full index name in the field. has anyone been able to change the date on the index for the plugin?
index =\> "indexname-%{+YYY.MM.dd}" gives an error of no such index except thats how the indexes are formatted index =\> "indexname-2018.08.23" will give me todays index and work but i constantly want it to be using the previous days because im inputting certain information into a csv file.
thanks!
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786/2 "2018-08-23T20:12:26Z")
There's no great way of doing this. Why not use a wildcard index name and use a query to restrict which documents are returned by the elasticsearch input?
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### Author:  [@Scoyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scoyle)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786/3 "2018-08-24T11:56:15Z")
I was thinking that might be the case. would you just query indexname-{now/d-1d{YYY.MM.dd}}?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786/4 "2018-08-24T14:14:57Z")
No, use the elasticsearch input's `query` option.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-input-plugin-index-date/145786/5 "2018-09-21T14:14:59Z")
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