# Why doesn't DevTool get error "index\_closed\_exception" with same query syntax? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 28, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-doesnt-devtool-get-error-index-closed-exception-with-same-query-syntax/293030 "2021-12-28T09:33:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jenhouwu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jenhouwu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jenhouwu)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-doesnt-devtool-get-error-index-closed-exception-with-same-query-syntax/293030/1 "2021-12-28T09:33:33Z")
Hi, I try to prepare a search to query indices name as a-\*, for some reason I closed some of a-\* indices that are one month old. I can get data by Kibana DevTool even if I query closed index. However when I use "curl" with same syntax, I got error "index\_closed\_exception","reason":"closed". Why? ---
**Author:** ![jenhouwu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@jenhouwu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jenhouwu)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-doesnt-devtool-get-error-index-closed-exception-with-same-query-syntax/293030/2 "2021-12-30T01:34:37Z")
Update In order to prevent this error，I changed query uri from [http://Elasticsearch](http://Elasticsearch):Port/a-\*/\_search to [http://ElasticsearchIP](http://ElasticsearchIP):Port/a-2021.12.26,a-2021.12.27,a-2021.12.28/\_search and got data. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-doesnt-devtool-get-error-index-closed-exception-with-same-query-syntax/293030/3 "2022-01-27T01:34:48Z")
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