# Is it possible to do scanning & scrolling over multiple indexes

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677 "2016-01-20T16:12:09Z")
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### Author: ![Philip\_K\_Adetiloye](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_k_adetiloye/32/14386_2.png) [@Philip\_K\_Adetiloye](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_K_Adetiloye)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677/1 "2016-01-20T16:12:09Z")

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Seems scrolling and scanning is not supported over multiple indexes...is there any way around this ?

Sample query

```
GET sales-rpts3*/ptt/_search?scroll=1m
{
  "size": 5

}

```

Response:

```
{
   "error": {
	  "root_cause": [
		 {
			"type": "array_index_out_of_bounds_exception",
			"reason": "98"
		 }
	  ],
	  "type": "array_index_out_of_bounds_exception",
	  "reason": "98"
   },
   "status": 500
}
```

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### Author: ![abeyad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@abeyad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abeyad)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677/2 "2016-01-20T18:20:27Z")

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Scan and scroll is supported over multiple indexes.

Are you seeing a stack trace on the console where Elasticsearch is running? Or any information in the logs? ($ES\_HOME/logs/elasticsearch.log)

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### Author: ![Philip\_K\_Adetiloye](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_k_adetiloye/32/14386_2.png) [@Philip\_K\_Adetiloye](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_K_Adetiloye)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677/3 "2016-01-20T19:41:47Z")

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I found my mistake now...when I copied the scollId with my mouse (double clicked), It didn't copy the last '=' character 🙂

Thanks!

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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 5, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-do-scanning-scrolling-over-multiple-indexes/39677/4 "2017-07-05T23:22:57Z")

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