Get Search Application

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This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Retrieves information about a Search Application.

Request

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GET _application/search_application/<name>

Prerequisites

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Requires the manage_search_application cluster privilege.

Path parameters

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<name>
(Required, string)

Response codes

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400
The name was not provided.
404 (Missing resources)
No Search Application matching name could be found.

Examples

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The following example gets the Search Application named my-app:

GET _application/search_application/my-app/

A sample response:

{
    "name": "my-app",
    "indices": [ "index1", "index2" ],
    "updated_at_millis": 1682105622204,
    "template": {
      "script": {
        "source": {
          "query": {
            "query_string": {
              "query": "{{query_string}}",
              "default_field": "{{default_field}}"
            }
          }
        },
        "params": {
          "query_string": "*",
          "default_field": "*"
        }
      }
  }
}