# Single Alias for multiple indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 22, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089 "2016-03-22T10:24:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/1 "2016-03-22T10:24:07Z")
Hi All,
Please help me to create a single alias linked to multiple indices. Required for visualization in kibana.
I am not able to create it from elastic search head plugin.
Please suggest.
Regards,
Prateek
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/2 "2016-03-22T10:26:40Z")
The fourth example in the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html) shows how to do this. What is not working for you?
If you are looking for a user interface to do this through, it seems like [Kopf](https://github.com/lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf) has support for it, although I have not used this myself.
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/3 "2016-03-22T11:57:16Z")
Hey ,
I am new to ELK and was trying to visualize data on dashboard. The dashboard is generated earlier and again a new index is created for different date with similar data respective to date which is not visible on dashboard previously created. I raised a conversation for the same and was suggested to post output from \_cat/aliases" with single alias linked to both indices.
I just tried below & resulted error:-
[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases](http://localhost:9200/_aliases)' -d '
{
"actions" : [
{ "add" : { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "Index\_Alias" } },
{ "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new", "alias" : "Index\_Alias" } }
]
}'
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception","reason":"No feature for name [\_aliases' -d ' { "actions" : [{ "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new"]"}],"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception","reason":"No feature for name [\_aliases' -d ' { "actions" : [{ "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar17new"]"},"status":400}
Please suggest where I am missing .
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/4 "2016-03-22T12:25:05Z")
Did you try it using curl just as in the example? Did you send a POST request? What is the output of `_cat/indices`?
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/5 "2016-03-31T08:29:21Z")
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: analysisleg2cnew
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: alias
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: Index\_Alias
I am getting these in curl command line.
Yes it is a POST request ,I doubt I am missing something with curl may be.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/6 "2016-03-31T08:32:40Z")
Looks like you are sending invalid URLs through curl. Without seeing the actual commends you are trying there is little we can do to help.
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/7 "2016-03-31T08:36:48Z")
Agree to you but I have not used CURL earlier & because of that I might be missing something .
Please suggest if you find there is a mistake with the command below -
curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases](http://localhost:9200/_aliases)' -d ' { "actions" : [ {"add"
: { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "alias1" } }, { "add" : { "index" :
"leg2mar29", "alias" : "alias1" } } ] }'
Then I would try to run it once again to get proper comment.
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/8 "2016-03-31T08:45:16Z")
What is the output of `curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices` ?
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/9 "2016-03-31T08:48:53Z")
curl [http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices)?
yellow open .kibana 1 1 46 6 75.7kb 75.7kb
yellow open leg2mar29 5 1 147144 0 69.3mb 69.3mb
yellow open timediff 5 1 750 0 308.8kb 308.8kb
yellow open leg2mar17new 5 1 16 0 40.4kb 40.4kb
yellow open analysisleg2c 5 1 15007 0 6.9mb 6.9mb
yellow open analysisleg2cnew 5 1 15007 0 7mb 7mb
yellow open timediff\_batchadded 5 1 1500 0 524.2kb 524.2kb
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/10 "2016-03-31T08:51:04Z")
> [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](#):
>
> curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases](http://localhost:9200/_aliases)' -d ' { "actions" : [{"add" : { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "alias1" } }, { "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar29", "alias" : "alias1" } }] }'
As far as I can see this looks OK. What is the response when running it?
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/11 "2016-03-31T08:59:53Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
>
> curl -XPOST '[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases](http://localhost:9200/_aliases)' -d ' { "actions" : [{"add" : { "index" : "analysisleg2cnew", "alias" : "alias1" } }, { "add" : { "index" : "leg2mar29", "alias" : "alias1" } }] }'
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"parse\_exception","reason":"Failed to derive xco
ntent"}],"type":"parse\_exception","reason":"Failed to derive xcontent"},"status"
:400}curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
.
.
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: alias1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/12 "2016-03-31T09:45:23Z")
I created the two indices empty locally and ran the command without any problems. Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? Which operating system are you on?
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/13 "2016-03-31T09:50:28Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
>
> g system are you on?
Elasticsearch- 2.1.0
OS -Windows
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/14 "2016-03-31T09:52:16Z")
Then it might very well be something related to curl on Windows. I will unfortunately not be able to help you there as I do not have any Windows box available.
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### Author:  [@Prateek\_Kshtriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prateek_Kshtriya)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/15 "2016-03-31T09:54:03Z")
Ok thanks for help & patience but in that case do I have any option to resolve below one -
> [@Single Dashboard utilization for different index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-dashboard-utilization-for-different-index/44692/3):
>
> Hey Christian, I created the aliases but the dashboard is not getting refreshed for second index whereas is getting data for alias also i.e not getting dashboard data for two different aliases. Index 1 alias- Dashboard showing data Index 2 alias - Dashboard not showing data Thanks & Regards
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/single-alias-for-multiple-indices/45089/16 "2017-07-05T23:03:36Z")