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Elastic Docs ›Elastic Cloud Enterprise Reference [2.5] ›RESTful API ›API reference ›Users

Fetch a single user

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Fetch a single user

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Fetches a single user.

Request

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GET /api/v1/users/{user_name}

Path parameters

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Name Type Required Description

user_name

string

Y

Identifier for the user

Responses

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200

(User) User successfully fetched

403

(BasicFailedReply) Invalid permissions

404

(BasicFailedReply) User not found

To perform this operation, you must be authenticated by means of one of the following methods: apiKey, basicAuth.

Request example

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curl -XGET https://{{hostname}}/api/v1/users/{user_name} \
-H "Authorization: ApiKey $ECE_API_KEY"
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