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Overview
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Overview
editThe SQL REST API accepts SQL in a JSON document, executes it, and returns the results. For example:
POST /_sql?format=txt { "query": "SELECT * FROM library ORDER BY page_count DESC LIMIT 5" } Which returns:
author | name | page_count | release_date -----------------+--------------------+---------------+------------------------ Peter F. Hamilton|Pandora's Star |768 |2004-03-02T00:00:00.000Z Vernor Vinge |A Fire Upon the Deep|613 |1992-06-01T00:00:00.000Z Frank Herbert |Dune |604 |1965-06-01T00:00:00.000Z Alastair Reynolds|Revelation Space |585 |2000-03-15T00:00:00.000Z James S.A. Corey |Leviathan Wakes |561 |2011-06-02T00:00:00.000Z
Using Kibana ConsoleIf you are using Kibana Console (which is highly recommended), take advantage of the triple quotes """ when creating the query. This not only automatically escapes double quotes (") inside the query string but also support multi-line as shown below: 