Elasticsearch provides a search facility by passing /_search at the end of the URL. It can be applied after the server URL, the index, or the type. For example, in our case, if we want to search a student document having name equals to nilang, we have to use the query as follows.

With a REST client (Postman), use the following:

• URL: http://localhost:9200/students/student/_search?q=name:nilang
• Method: GET

With Kibana, use:

GET students/student/_search?q=name:nilang

Alternatively, you can use the following syntax for searching. It is quite useful for a complex search with multiple search criteria for multiple fields:

GET students/student/_search
{
  "query": {
      "match": {
        "name": "nilang"
      }
  }
}