# Executing searches on one replica only

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-searches-on-one-replica-only/6269>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-searches-on-one-replica-only/6269 "2012-01-03T11:20:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Thibaut\_Britz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Thibaut\_Britz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibaut_Britz)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-searches-on-one-replica-only/6269/1 "2012-01-03T11:20:18Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to instruct elasticsearch to execute the search on one  
replica only. And only if that replica is down, move to the second replica.

We have many indexes open and this would help with data locality, so we can  
make sure that all search requests for one index get always routed to the  
same search server.

Thanks,  
Thibaut

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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, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/executing-searches-on-one-replica-only/6269/2 "2017-07-06T03:43:59Z")

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