# Index Aliases: routing with \_update **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689 "2012-08-09T05:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/1 "2012-08-09T05:31:46Z")
Hi, As I can see, when I use index aliases with specified routing, everything works fine (indexing and searching), but \_update does not follow the routing setting from the alias. Is that ok or there is something wrong at my end ? If this is not right behavior I will give an example here. Best regards. Marcin Dojwa. ---
**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/2 "2012-08-09T05:36:29Z")
OK, I am sure that \_update does not follow the routing value from alias because adding 'routing' value to the \_update query fixed the problem. Best regards. 2012/8/9 Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com) > Hi, > > As I can see, when I use index aliases with specified routing, everything > works fine (indexing and searching), but \_update does not follow the > routing setting from the alias. Is that ok or there is something wrong at > my end ? If this is not right behavior I will give an example here. > > Best regards. > Marcin Dojwa. ---
**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/3 "2012-08-09T05:44:08Z")
## I forgot to ask if this will be fixed and possibly when ? ๐Ÿ™‚ Unfortunately this does not allow to do what is told in [Elastic โ€” The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/videos/2012/06/05/big-data-search-and-analytics.html) I mean the part about extracting huge users to separated indexes in "Users" data flow section. Hardcoding routing parameter for every \_update in applications makes it imposible split extracted huge user to separated index into more than one shard. Thanks for help. Best regards. 2012/8/9 Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com) > OK, I am sure that \_update does not follow the routing value from alias > because adding 'routing' value to the \_update query fixed the problem. > > Best regards. > > 2012/8/9 Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com) > > > Hi, > > > > As I can see, when I use index aliases with specified routing, everything > > works fine (indexing and searching), but \_update does not follow the > > routing setting from the alias. Is that ok or there is something wrong at > > my end ? If this is not right behavior I will give an example here. > > > > Best regards. > > Marcin Dojwa. ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/4 "2012-08-09T11:36:34Z")
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 07:44 +0200, Marcin Dojwa wrote: > I forgot to ask if this will be fixed and possibly when ? ๐Ÿ™‚ I suggest opening an issue with a curl replication of the problem - quickest way to get somebody working on it clint ---
**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/5 "2012-08-09T11:40:05Z")
Thanks, I asked here because I was no sure if this is a bug or it just works like this ๐Ÿ™‚ I will open the ticket as you said. Best regards. 2012/8/9 Clinton Gormley [clint@traveljury.com](mailto:clint@traveljury.com) > On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 07:44 +0200, Marcin Dojwa wrote: > > > I forgot to ask if this will be fixed and possibly when ? ๐Ÿ™‚ > > I suggest opening an issue with a curl replication of the problem - > quickest way to get somebody working on it > > clint ---
**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:** [August 9, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/6 "2012-08-09T13:07:58Z")
Heya, its a bug, I have already recreated it with a test case, will open an issue and it will be fixed in the next 0.19 release. Here is the issue: [Update API: Update through an alias with routing configured on it fail to use the routing ยท Issue #2155 ยท elastic/elasticsearch ยท GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/2155). On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com) wrote: > Thanks, I asked here because I was no sure if this is a bug or it just works like this ๐Ÿ™‚ I will open the ticket as you said. > > Best regards. > > 2012/8/9 Clinton Gormley [clint@traveljury.com](mailto:clint@traveljury.com) > On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 07:44 +0200, Marcin Dojwa wrote: > > > I forgot to ask if this will be fixed and possibly when ? ๐Ÿ™‚ > > I suggest opening an issue with a curl replication of the problem - > quickest way to get somebody working on it > > clint ---
**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/7 "2012-08-09T13:26:59Z")
Thank you very much for this, it would be huge fix for me ๐Ÿ™‚ Best regards. 2012/8/9 Shay Banon [kimchy@gmail.com](mailto:kimchy@gmail.com) > Heya, its a bug, I have already recreated it with a test case, will open > an issue and it will be fixed in the next 0.19 release. Here is the issue: > [Update API: Update through an alias with routing configured on it fail to use the routing ยท Issue #2155 ยท elastic/elasticsearch ยท GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/2155). > > On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com) wrote: > > Thanks, I asked here because I was no sure if this is a bug or it just > works like this ๐Ÿ™‚ I will open the ticket as you said. > > Best regards. > > 2012/8/9 Clinton Gormley [clint@traveljury.com](mailto:clint@traveljury.com) > > > On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 07:44 +0200, Marcin Dojwa wrote: > > > > > I forgot to ask if this will be fixed and possibly when ? ๐Ÿ™‚ > > > > I suggest opening an issue with a curl replication of the problem - > > quickest way to get somebody working on it > > > > clint ---
**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, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-aliases-routing-with--update/8689/8 "2017-07-06T03:16:57Z")