Get the Elasticsearch query for a rule

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

GET /api/alerting/rule/{id}/query_inspector

Returns the Elasticsearch query that a rule executes, and optionally its response.

Authentication

Api key

Authorization: <value>

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 base64AccessApiKey

Basic

Authorization: Basic <credentials>

Path parameters

Query parameters

Responses

Indicates a successful call.

application/json

400

Indicates the rule type is not supported or the request parameters are invalid.

404

Indicates a rule with the specified rule ID does not exist.

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET kbn:/api/alerting/rule/ID/query_inspector

Generated from the API spec

curl Shell

curl -X GET "${KIBANA_URL}/api/alerting/rule/${ID}/query_inspector" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}"

Generated from the API spec

Response

{
  "queries": [
    {
      "index": "metrics-*",
      "request": {
        "aggs": {
          "groupings": {
            "composite": {
              "size": 500,
              "sources": []
            }
          }
        },
        "query": {
          "bool": {
            "filter": [
              {
                "range": {
                  "@timestamp": {
                    "gte": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
                    "lte": "2026-01-01T00:05:00.000Z"
                  }
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "size": 0
      }
    }
  ]
}