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How Do I Query Index Data on Kibana in an ES Cluster?

Run the following command to query index data through an API on Kibana:

GET indexname/_search

The returned data is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1 Returned data
  • took: How many milliseconds the query cost.
  • time_out: Whether a timeout occurred.
  • _shard: Data is split into five shards. All of the five shards have been searched and data is returned successfully. No query result fails to be returned. No data is skipped.
  • hits.total: Number of query results. Three documents are returned in this example.
  • max_score: Score of the returned documents. The document that is more relevant to your search criteria would have a higher score.
  • hits.hits: Detailed information of the returned documents.
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