# Ingest pipeline : Getting lookup values from another index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-pipeline-getting-lookup-values-from-another-index/164731>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-pipeline-getting-lookup-values-from-another-index/164731 "2019-01-18T04:46:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-pipeline-getting-lookup-values-from-another-index/164731/2 "2019-01-18T06:16:57Z")

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No this is not possible and should be done outside elasticsearch index process. Logstash for example.

I wrote an example of this here: [http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2019/01/10/from-a-startup-to-a-listed-company-6-years-of-fun/](http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2019/01/10/from-a-startup-to-a-listed-company-6-years-of-fun/)

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