Aliases | Elasticsearch Guide [7.16] | Elastic
www.elastic.co › guide › enAliases. An alias is a secondary name for a group of data streams or indices. Most Elasticsearch APIs accept an alias in place of a data stream or index name. You can change the data streams or indices of an alias at any time. If you use aliases in your application’s Elasticsearch requests, you can reindex data with no downtime or changes to ...
Aliases API | Elasticsearch Guide [7.16] | Elastic
www.elastic.co › guide › enalias. (Required*, string) Alias for the action. Index alias names support date math. If aliases is not specified, the add and remove actions require this parameter. For the remove action, this parameter supports wildcards ( * ). The remove_index action doesn’t support this parameter. aliases. (Required*, array of strings) Aliases for the action.