# Index alias with wildcard?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026 "2020-08-31T23:49:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/1 "2020-08-31T23:49:25Z")
Hello,
I am creating a daily index. Indices look like the following
my-index-2020-08-31
my-index-2020-08-30
my-index-2020-08-29
my-index-yyyy-mm-dd
Is t possible to add to the template an index alias with wildcard?
I want, for example, change the order of the naming.
my-index-2020-08-31 --\> index-my-2020-08-31
my-index-2020-08-30 --\> index-my-2020-08-30
my-index-yyyy-mm-dd --\> index-my-yyyy-mm-dd
Something like
```auto
PUT _template/my-index-template
{
"index_patterns" : [
"my-index-*"
],
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"lifecycle" : {
"name" : "ilm-1"
},
"number_of_shards" : "1",
"number_of_replicas" : "1"
}
},
"mappings" : {
"_source" : {
"enabled" : true
},
"properties" : {}
},
"aliases" : {
"index-my*" {}
}
}
```
Or how can I manage this?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/2 "2020-09-01T01:16:08Z")
You can't do that mapping with a template, no.
Is there a reason you can't just rename the index?
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/3 "2020-09-01T02:12:49Z")
All visualisations (and other objects) are based on the original name. I'll have to update all visualisations. dashboards, ml-jobs, etc. to be based on the new naming convention.
It's a lot of work... trying to find shortcuts, or workarounds.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/4 "2020-09-01T06:10:21Z")
Ah ok, fair point.
You could export all your Kibana assets and then open the `export.json` in a text editor and do a find and replace?
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### Author:  [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/5 "2020-09-01T06:32:50Z")
> [@warkolm](#):
>
> export.json
I can try that.
But from past experience, it will lead to multiple issues in the future.
This is not a bullet proof solution.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/6 "2020-09-01T06:36:05Z")
Yeah it's not sorry to say.
I would suggest creating an issue on the Kibana GitHub repo to highlight this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-alias-with-wildcard/247026/7 "2020-09-29T06:36:24Z")
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