# Where do I find the indices created by appsearch in elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [January 4, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480 "2022-01-04T21:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rouabah\_Oussama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rouabah_oussama/32/83350_2.png) [@Rouabah\_Oussama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rouabah_Oussama)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480/1 "2022-01-04T21:14:53Z")

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I am working on a project using appsearch as a search engine, but I need to make a "more like this" query which is not available in appsearch so I need to write the query directly to elasticsearch.

Is there a way to do this ? or am I missing something in appsearch APIs.

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**Author:** ![Irina\_Truong](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/irina_truong/32/112040_2.png) [@Irina\_Truong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irina_Truong)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480/2 "2022-01-05T21:04:35Z")

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We do not publish "internal" index names, and there are reasons for that:

- we don't want people to change any mappings or settings
- index names / naming scheme may change in future releases.

As of the current 7.16 release, the App Search indices containing documents would be named according to the following scheme:

`.ent-search-engine-documents-[ENGINE NAME]`

For example:

`.ent-search-engine-documents-national-parks-demo`.

You are correct, there's no `more_like_this` functionality in App Search, at least not yet.

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**Author:** ![Rouabah\_Oussama](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rouabah_oussama/32/83350_2.png) [@Rouabah\_Oussama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rouabah_Oussama)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480/3 "2022-01-26T15:13:48Z")

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Thanks @Irina_Truong that was helpfull

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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:** [February 23, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-do-i-find-the-indices-created-by-appsearch-in-elasticsearch/293480/4 "2022-02-23T15:14:26Z")

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