Update a runtime field

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

POST /api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field/{fieldName}

Auth

Update an existing runtime field in a data view. Only the fields provided in the request body are updated.

Path parameters

fieldName string required: The name of the runtime field.; Example: hour_of_day
viewId string required: An identifier for the data view.; Example: ff959d40-b880-11e8-a6d9-e546fe2bba5f

Request body

runtimeField object required

The runtime field definition object.

You can update following fields:

type
script

Responses

200

Indicates a successful call.

Bad request

application/json

error string required
message string required
statusCode number required

Base URL: https://{kibana_url}

Examples

Request Console 1 / 2 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

POST kbn://api/data_views/data_view/{viewId}/runtime_field/{fieldName}
{"runtimeField":{"type":"long","script":{"source":"emit(doc['timestamp'].value.getHour())"}}}

curl Shell

curl \
  -X POST "${KIBANA_URL}/api/data_views/data_view/${DATA_VIEW_ID}/runtime_field/${FIELD_NAME}" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"runtimeField":{"type":"long","script":{"source":"emit(doc['"'"'timestamp'"'"'].value.getHour())"}}}'

Response

No body

{
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "message": "[request body.data_view.title]: expected value of type [string] but got [undefined]",
  "statusCode": 400
}