# How to route data on specific shard?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-route-data-on-specific-shard/8209>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 24, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-route-data-on-specific-shard/8209 "2012-06-24T18:32:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tarun\_Jangra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarun_jangra/32/1426_2.png) [@Tarun\_Jangra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tarun_Jangra)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-route-data-on-specific-shard/8209/1 "2012-06-24T18:32:34Z")

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I read somewhere, we can route specific data on specific shard. And  
according to my understanding, we need this feature if we have content with  
the different behavior of searches. When we have big documents and more  
number of columns to be indexed. In this case, data should be routed on the  
machine with high configurations.

I am assuming, i have different capacity machines in cloud and each machine  
has one shard. And i want to push more sensitive data on high configuration  
machines.

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-route-data-on-specific-shard/8209/2 "2012-06-25T11:59:47Z")

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What do you mean by high configurations? Do you mean stronger boxes? In  
this case, you can actually separate the two types of data into different  
indices, and have one allocated on the stronger boxes, and the other on the  
not so strong boxes. The feature is called index shard allocation:  
[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/allocation.html).

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Rimpy [tarun@izap.in](mailto:tarun@izap.in) wrote:

> I read somewhere, we can route specific data on specific shard. And  
> according to my understanding, we need this feature if we have content with  
> the different behavior of searches. When we have big documents and more  
> number of columns to be indexed. In this case, data should be routed on the  
> machine with high configurations.
> 
> I am assuming, i have different capacity machines in cloud and each  
> machine has one shard. And i want to push more sensitive data on high  
> configuration machines.

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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, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-route-data-on-specific-shard/8209/3 "2017-07-06T03:22:44Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:22am UTC