# Remote Cluster Index handling

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-cluster-index-handling/250323
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-cluster-index-handling/250323 "2020-09-29T09:18:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Amrita\_Mahule](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amrita_mahule/32/76222_2.png) [@Amrita\_Mahule](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amrita_Mahule)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-cluster-index-handling/250323/1 "2020-09-29T09:18:06Z")

</div>

Hi Team,

We have created a new remote cluster(in addition to one existing cluster) and a new index in it. We are trying to create an alias of that newly created index but getting index not found error(We are able to see the new index in Index Patterns).

POST \_aliases  
{  
"actions": [  
{  
"add": {  
"index": "iib-elasticsearc",  
"alias": "test\_iib\_alias"  
}  
}  
]  
}

* * *

{  
"error" : {  
"root\_cause" : [  
{  
"type" : "index\_not\_found\_exception",  
"reason" : "no such index [iib-elasticsearc]",  
"index\_uuid" : "_na_",  
"resource.type" : "index\_or\_alias",  
"resource.id" : "iib-elasticsearc",  
"index" : "iib-elasticsearc"  
}  
],  
"type" : "index\_not\_found\_exception",  
"reason" : "no such index [iib-elasticsearc]",  
"index\_uuid" : "_na_",  
"resource.type" : "index\_or\_alias",  
"resource.id" : "iib-elasticsearc",  
"index" : "iib-elasticsearc"  
},  
"status" : 404  
}

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-cluster-index-handling/250323/2 "2020-09-29T09:47:55Z")

</div>

Cat you run `GET iib-elasticsearc` and paste the response? From here it looks as if there is an `h` missing at the end, but that is hard to tell.

Also, `GET _cat/indices` will give you a list of indices on that system. Is that index among those?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-cluster-index-handling/250323/3 "2020-10-27T09:47:58Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.