Get ES|QL datasets

  • GET /_query/dataset/{name}
  • GET /_query/dataset
Auth

Returns one or more datasets used in ES|QL data federation. A concrete-name miss returns 404; a wildcard pattern or list-all request with no match returns 200 with an empty array.

ES|QL Data Federation

Required privileges

Index privileges manage

Path parameters

name union string | string[] optional

A comma-separated list of dataset names or wildcard patterns. Omit to return all datasets.

Leave it out to use /_query/dataset.

Query parameters

master_timeout union oneOf · default: 30s

Period to wait for a connection to the master node.

Values: -1 0

Response

application/json
datasets object[] required

The matching datasets.

name string required

The dataset name.

data_source string required

The name of the referenced data source.

resource string required

The URI that identifies the data to read, resolved against the referenced data source. It can include glob patterns, for example a recursive pattern that matches Parquet files under s3://logs-bucket/access.

description string

A free-text description.

settings map string to object

Format- and parsing-specific settings that configure how the resource is read. Common keys include format and partition_detection. Additional keys depend on the format reader; compression can be inferred from the resource URI.