# What indexes will be used during elastic search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 17, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819 "2022-07-17T13:35:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![davecomputertips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@davecomputertips](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davecomputertips)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/1 "2022-07-17T13:35:29Z")

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I am confused because this is ambiguous question. Is it asking about inverted index? Or this?

> **[What is an Elasticsearch Index?](https://www.elastic.co/blog/what-is-an-elasticsearch-index)**

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/2 "2022-07-17T23:30:35Z")

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> [@davecomputertips](#):
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> I am confused because this is ambiguous question

What is an ambiguous question?

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**Author:** ![davecomputertips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@davecomputertips](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davecomputertips)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/3 "2022-07-18T00:48:38Z")

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> [What indexes will be used during elastic search?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819)

This is the question.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/4 "2022-07-18T00:49:31Z")

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Ah, ok.

Well I guess that depends on where the query is directed. It's a very vague question so it's hard to provide a specific answer.

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**Author:** ![davecomputertips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@davecomputertips](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davecomputertips)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/5 "2022-07-18T01:23:41Z")

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what'd be the possible answers? (Is it same as i wrote in post)?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/6 "2022-07-18T02:31:18Z")

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The query is parsed and sent to the shards of the index that is being queried.

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**Author:** ![davecomputertips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@davecomputertips](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davecomputertips)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/7 "2022-07-18T03:04:58Z")

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thanks but i didn't get how this is related to index?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/8 "2022-07-18T03:06:28Z")

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Then that blog post is still a good starting point.

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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 15, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-indexes-will-be-used-during-elastic-search/309819/9 "2022-08-15T03:06:30Z")

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