# Reading from specific index under alias
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reading-from-specific-index-under-alias/265079
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** es-hadoop
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reading-from-specific-index-under-alias/265079 "2021-02-22T14:35:16Z")
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### Author:  [@b\_bal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/b_bal)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reading-from-specific-index-under-alias/265079/1 "2021-02-22T14:35:17Z")
Hello!
I have different indices named _myindex-_. Every night a new index is created(with a different number), so we use an alias(_myalias_) to keep track of the index that contains the most recent documents. Under that alias there are also other indices with different structure, so I need just _myindex-_.
I use es-hadoop to query and right now my code looks like this:
```auto
spark.read.format("org.elasticsearch.spark.sql")
.option(...).load(myalias?q=_index:myindex-*)
```
I think there should be a way to ready directly from that index(under the alias), without filtering. Do you have any idea? Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reading-from-specific-index-under-alias/265079/2 "2021-03-22T14:35:47Z")
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