# Marking document as "not searchable", is it possible?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marking-document-as-not-searchable-is-it-possible/15778
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 13, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marking-document-as-not-searchable-is-it-possible/15778 "2014-02-13T14:33:38Z")
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### Author:  [@anon44344346](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon44344346)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marking-document-as-not-searchable-is-it-possible/15778/1 "2014-02-13T14:33:38Z")
I want documents who has certain field/value pairs ("availability: 0"), not
to be "searchable".
There's one solution provided by Igor, which is to use an alias. We set an
alias with the index name and a filter requiring availibity \> 0 , and we
make all our search queries to that alias. But I like to know if there's
anyway to tell "ES to "not even look at" those documents. More or less like
the "index:no" option when defining a field mapping, but on a document
level.
I've pursuing this because I think there's a performance gain here, maybe
there's not? an alias with a numeric filter is as performant as this "not
searchable document" solution would be???
txs
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marking-document-as-not-searchable-is-it-possible/15778/2 "2014-02-13T23:37:26Z")
Filters are super fast to apply, especially when cached. I wouldn't worry
about the cost of applying a filter.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:33 PM, JoeZ99 [jzarate@gmail.com](mailto:jzarate@gmail.com) wrote:
> I want documents who has certain field/value pairs ("availability: 0"),
> not to be "searchable".
>
> There's one solution provided by Igor, which is to use an alias. We set an
> alias with the index name and a filter requiring availibity \> 0 , and we
> make all our search queries to that alias. But I like to know if there's
> anyway to tell "ES to "not even look at" those documents. More or less like
> the "index:no" option when defining a field mapping, but on a document
> level.
>
> I've pursuing this because I think there's a performance gain here, maybe
> there's not? an alias with a numeric filter is as performant as this "not
> searchable document" solution would be???
>
> txs
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marking-document-as-not-searchable-is-it-possible/15778/3 "2017-07-06T01:50:19Z")