# Search Multiple indices in a cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-multiple-indices-in-a-cluster/196636
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-multiple-indices-in-a-cluster/196636 "2019-08-24T19:57:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@krish1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krish1)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-multiple-indices-in-a-cluster/196636/1 "2019-08-24T19:57:22Z")
I have two different indices(index-1, index-2) in a cluster with the same schema. I know I can query the two indices together in a single query, so if I set in the query "size":1000 elastic search will return 1000 results from each of the indices, sort the 2000 results according to the "\_score" and return back the top 1000 documents.
However I am curious to know if there is a way to force elastic search to pick only maybe 10 documents from index-1 and the rest of the 990 documents from index-2? I am using ElasticSearch 7.1
This is the query I am using.
```
GET /index-1,index-2/_search/
{
"query": {
"multi_match": {
"query": "My query",
"fields": [
"field_1",
"field_2"
]
}
},
"size": 1000
}
```
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-multiple-indices-in-a-cluster/196636/2 "2019-08-25T08:01:56Z")
You can do that by sending 2 separate queries at once in the same request using the [multi search API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/search-multi-search.html). You can as far as I know not control that way if it is in a single query.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-multiple-indices-in-a-cluster/196636/3 "2019-09-22T08:01:56Z")
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