diff --git a/docs/management/index-patterns.asciidoc b/docs/management/index-patterns.asciidoc
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@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ pattern:
 *:logstash-*
 ```
 
+You can use exclusions to exclude indices that might contain mapping errors.
+To match indices starting with `logstash-`, and exclude those starting with `logstash-old` from 
+all clusters having a name starting with `cluster_`, you can use `cluster_*:logstash-*,cluster*:logstash-old*`.
+To exclude a cluster, use `cluster_*:logstash-*,cluster_one:-*`.
+
 Once an index pattern is configured using the {ccs} syntax, all searches and
 aggregations using that index pattern in {kib} take advantage of {ccs}.