Kibana data views API
Data view APIs enable you to manage data views, formerly known as Kibana index patterns.
Kibana data views API is one of 60 APIs that Kibana publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include data views. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.
This API exposes 15 operations across 9 paths, and defines 17 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{kibana_url}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
Kibana data views API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKeyAuth— These APIs use key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example: Authorization: ApiKey base64A…
Paths & Operations 15
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 15 operations — 2 DELETE, 4 GET, 8 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Data view APIs enable you to manage data views, formerly known as Kibana index patterns.
Schemas 17
The contract defines 17 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Data_views_swap_data_view_request_object (6 properties), Data_views_404_response (3 properties), Data_views_400_response (3 properties), Data_views_fieldattrs (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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