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[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will apply best effort to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Retrieve a single data view by ID.

For the most up-to-date API details, refer to the open API specification.

Requestedit

GET <kibana host>:<port>/api/data_views/data_view/<id>

GET <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/data_views/data_view/<id>

Path parametersedit

space_id
(Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.
id
(Required, string) The ID of the data view you want to retrieve.

Response codeedit

200
Indicates a successful call.
404
The specified data view and ID doesn’t exist.

Exampleedit

Retrieve the data view object with the my-view ID:

$ curl -X GET api/data_views/data_view/my-view

The API returns a data view object:

{
    "data_view": {
        "id": "my-view",
        "version": "...",
        "title": "...",
        "type": "...",
        "timeFieldName": "...",
        "sourceFilters": [],
        "fields": {},
        "typeMeta": {},
        "fieldFormats": {},
        "fieldAttrs": {},
        "runtimeFieldMap" {},
        "allowNoIndex: "..."
    }
}
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