# How to create many small separate indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-many-small-separate-indices/326459>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-many-small-separate-indices/326459 "2023-02-24T17:25:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-many-small-separate-indices/326459/3 "2023-02-24T18:09:07Z")

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Is it also possible to solve it with aliases? Ie have many aliases that point to the same index? Would that also respect the "separate indexing"? That is at least my understanding what was suggested in the form [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-lots-of-small-indices/272063/2)

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