# How to organize elasticsearch indexes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-organize-elasticsearch-indexes/211598>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-organize-elasticsearch-indexes/211598 "2019-12-12T08:44:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![tortillla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@tortillla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tortillla)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-organize-elasticsearch-indexes/211598/1 "2019-12-12T08:44:37Z")

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I have data coming from many identical devices (the data is generated in the same way, follows the same schema, etc.). Each device has a special ID. I want to see my data in Elasticsearch/Kibana per each device. Am I understanding correctly that I should then have one index for each device?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-organize-elasticsearch-indexes/211598/2 "2019-12-12T09:04:45Z")

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Hey,

no need for an index per-device. You can have a filter for that device in the kibana search field at the top.

--Alex

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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:** [January 9, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-organize-elasticsearch-indexes/211598/3 "2020-01-09T09:04:47Z")

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