Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) data views API

Data view APIs enable you to manage data views, formerly known as Kibana index patterns.

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Operations 15

GET /api/data_views Get all data views #

POST /api/data_views/data_view Create a data view #

DELETE /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId} Delete a data view #

GET /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId} Get a data view #

POST /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId} Update a data view #

POST /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/fields Update field metadata #

POST /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field Create a runtime field #

PUT /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field Create or update a runtime field #

DELETE /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field/{fieldName} Delete a runtime field #

GET /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field/{fieldName} Get a runtime field #

POST /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field/{fieldName} Update a runtime field #

GET /api/data_views/default Get the default data view #

POST /api/data_views/default Set the default data view #

POST /api/data_views/swap_references Swap saved object references #

POST /api/data_views/swap_references/_preview Preview swap references #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: Kibana Team
  description: The Kibana REST APIs enable you to manage resources such as connectors, data views, and saved objects.
  title: Kibana data views API
  version: ''
  x-doc-license:
    name: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  x-feedbackLink:
    label: Feedback
    url: https://github.com/elastic/docs-content/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feedback%2Ccommunity&projects=&template=api-feedback.yaml&title=%5BFeedback%5D%3A+
servers:
- url: https://{kibana_url}
  variables:
    kibana_url:
      default: localhost:5601
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
tags:


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