# Mapping for multiple users (mapping conflicts)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-for-multiple-users-mapping-conflicts/188268>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-for-multiple-users-mapping-conflicts/188268 "2019-07-01T09:08:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![vincentvm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincentvm/32/40284_2.png) [@vincentvm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vincentvm)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-for-multiple-users-mapping-conflicts/188268/1 "2019-07-01T09:08:42Z")

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I'm trying to implement mapping for multiple users without triggering mapping conflict errors for log data. As of now we have about a 1000 users storing data in the cluster for 30 days.

Right now we're storing data in a indice per day fashion (logs-Y-M-D). We parse json data in our logs automatically and store it, some users will use the same value for example json.time="July 1st 2019, 11:04:40.870" but another user might set a timestamp json.time=1561971916.

Should we switch to an incide per user per day (1000\*30 indices) or are there other options?

Something I thought of is to store the json value in a per user variable for example USERID.json.time='timevalue'.

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**Author:** ![vincentvm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincentvm/32/40284_2.png) [@vincentvm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vincentvm)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-for-multiple-users-mapping-conflicts/188268/2 "2019-07-11T09:56:28Z")

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Anyone can help with this?

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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:** [August 8, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-for-multiple-users-mapping-conflicts/188268/3 "2019-08-08T09:56:33Z")

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