Title: Bug Fix: Skip Elasticsearch index / database count comparison health check if no index exists
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: January 12, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. Bug Fix: Skip Elasticsearch index / database count comparison health check if no
    index exists

# Bug Fix: Skip Elasticsearch index / database count comparison health check if no index exists

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 12 January 2021

12:42:55 GMT+0000

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In a multisite context, if one site has VIP Search all sites have access to VIP 
Search. Even if they don’t have an index. This is problematic as it logs false positives
in our health checks. To prevent this from happening, we now skip site / indexable
combos that don’t exist.

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/1933