Index a document

POST /{index}/_doc/{id}

Adds a JSON document to the specified data stream or index and makes it searchable. If the target is an index and the document already exists, the request updates the document and increments its version.

Path parameters

index string Required

Name of the data stream or index to target.
id string Required

Unique identifier for the document.

Query parameters

if_primary_term number

Only perform the operation if the document has this primary term.
if_seq_no number

Only perform the operation if the document has this sequence number.
op_type string

Set to create to only index the document if it does not already exist (put if absent). If a document with the specified _id already exists, the indexing operation will fail. Same as using the <index>/_create endpoint. Valid values: index, create. If document id is specified, it defaults to index. Otherwise, it defaults to create.

Values are index or create.
pipeline string

ID of the pipeline to use to preprocess incoming documents. If the index has a default ingest pipeline specified, then setting the value to _none disables the default ingest pipeline for this request. If a final pipeline is configured it will always run, regardless of the value of this parameter.
refresh string

If true, Elasticsearch refreshes the affected shards to make this operation visible to search, if wait_for then wait for a refresh to make this operation visible to search, if false do nothing with refreshes. Valid values: true, false, wait_for.

Values are true, false, or wait_for.
routing string

Custom value used to route operations to a specific shard.
timeout string

Period the request waits for the following operations: automatic index creation, dynamic mapping updates, waiting for active shards.
version number

Explicit version number for concurrency control. The specified version must match the current version of the document for the request to succeed.
version_type string

Specific version type: external, external_gte.

Values are internal, external, external_gte, or force.
wait_for_active_shards number | string

The number of shard copies that must be active before proceeding with the operation. Set to all or any positive integer up to the total number of shards in the index (number_of_replicas+1).
require_alias boolean

If true, the destination must be an index alias.

application/json

Body Required

object object

Additional properties are allowed.

Responses

200 application/json
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- _id string Required
- _index string Required
- _primary_term number
- result string Required
  
  Values are created, updated, deleted, not_found, or noop.
- _seq_no number
- _shards object Required
  
  Additional properties are allowed.
  
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  failed number Required
  
  successful number Required
  
  total number Required
  
  failures array[object]
  
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  index string
  
  node string
  
  reason object Required
  
  Additional properties are allowed.
  
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  type string Required
  
  The type of error
  
  reason string
  
  A human-readable explanation of the error, in english
  
  stack_trace string
  
  The server stack trace. Present only if the error_trace=true parameter was sent with the request.
  
  caused_by object
  
  Additional properties are allowed.
  
  root_cause array[object]
  
  Additional properties are allowed.
  
  suppressed array[object]
  
  Additional properties are allowed.
  
  shard number Required
  
  status string
  
  skipped number
- _version number Required
- forced_refresh boolean

POST /{index}/_doc/{id}

curl \
 -X POST http://api.example.com/{index}/_doc/{id} \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json"