{"id":12539,"date":"2024-03-14T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-query-all-data-under-the-index-in-elasticsearch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T02:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T02:53:11","slug":"how-to-query-all-data-under-the-index-in-elasticsearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-query-all-data-under-the-index-in-elasticsearch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elasticsearch Query All Data: Complete Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Elasticsearch, you can use the query API to search all data under an index. There are multiple ways to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Perform a match_all query: This is a simple query that returns all documents in the index. An example request is shown below:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code>GET \/your_index\/_search\r\n{\r\n  \"query\": {\r\n    \"match_all\": {}\r\n  }\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<ol>\n<li>Utilize the scroll API for pagination: When there is a large amount of data in an index, a single query may not be able to return all results. 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