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Elasticsearch serviceedit

Elasticsearch service provides elasticsearch.client program API to communicate with Elasticsearch server HTTP API.

The Elasticsearch service is only available server side. You can use the Data plugin APIs on the client side.

elasticsearch.client interacts with Elasticsearch service on behalf of:

  • kibana_system user via elasticsearch.client.asInternalUser.* methods.
  • a current end-user via elasticsearch.client.asCurrentUser.* methods. In this case Elasticsearch client should be given the current user credentials. See Scoped services and Security.

Elasticsearch service API docs

import { CoreStart, Plugin } from 'kibana/public';

export class MyPlugin implements Plugin {
  public start(core: CoreStart) {
    async function asyncTask() {
      const result = await core.elasticsearch.client.asInternalUser.ping(…);
    }
    asyncTask();
  }
}

For advanced use-cases, such as a search, use Data plugin

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