# Re-indexing ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816 "2023-07-19T18:31:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![randallkiddsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@randallkiddsr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randallkiddsr)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/1 "2023-07-19T18:31:25Z")

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I am trying to get clarity on the necessity and steps to re indexing Elasticsearch. After performing a search on one account, that account is coming up blank.

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/2 "2023-07-20T08:59:58Z")

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Hi @randallkiddsr,

Welcome to the community! Do you mean reindexing a particular index? This can be done with the [`_reindex` API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html).

It might be the document doesn't match the query rather than an issue with the index. Can you share the query you're running and the document you expect to match that is not returning with your query?

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**Author:** ![randallkiddsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@randallkiddsr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randallkiddsr)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/3 "2023-07-20T09:34:25Z")

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Hi Carly, that is a concept that I did not think of. The query is performed inside the company’s application. I will reach out to my application team to explore that possibility  
The actual query is not submitted via code, but inside the search bar inside the application. I’ll respond once I get feedback

Thank you so much for the quick response

Randall

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**Author:** ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/4 "2023-07-20T13:06:35Z")

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No worries @randallkiddsr! If you get more information on how the search is being carried out in the application and the query used in Elasticsearch we'll do our best to help.

Best of luck!

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**Author:** ![randallkiddsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@randallkiddsr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randallkiddsr)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/5 "2023-07-20T14:38:40Z")

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That's great, thank you very much.

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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 17, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-indexing-elasticsearch/338816/6 "2023-08-17T14:38:51Z")

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