# Group indexes multi searching?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 9, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477 "2020-02-09T19:11:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![elink12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@elink12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elink12)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/1 "2020-02-09T19:11:44Z")

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Hi, I have 5 indexes with identical properties. How do I get 10 best results from each index when multi searching?

```
$search = [
    'index' => 'table_*',
    'body' => [
        'size' => '10',
        'query' => [
            'match' => [
                'name' => 'test search test'
            ]
        ],
    ],
];

```

I expect such a result:

[table\_1] =\> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]  
[table\_2] =\> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]  
[table\_3] =\> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]  
[table\_4] =\> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]  
[table\_5] =\> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/2 "2020-02-09T20:35:35Z")

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Have a look at the multisearch API.

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**Author:** ![elink12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@elink12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elink12)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/3 "2020-02-09T20:58:48Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-multi-search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-multi-search.html)

I probably see bad or do not quite understand? (

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/4 "2020-02-10T02:15:50Z")

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That's the right API to use IMO to solve the use case you described.

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**Author:** ![elink12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@elink12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elink12)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/5 "2020-02-10T06:28:48Z")

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i see this example, it is convenient that it is not required to specify a specific list of indexes, but I cannot understand how to group from this example

```
$search = [
    'index' => 'table_*',
    'body' => [
        'size' => '10',
        'query' => [
            'match' => [
                'name' => 'test search test'
            ]
        ],
    ],
];
```

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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:** [March 9, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/group-indexes-multi-searching/218477/6 "2020-03-09T06:28:53Z")

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