App Search Migration to Elasticsearch

aisyaharifin · July 16, 2025, 3:19am

Hi Elastic team,

I'm reaching out here as I want to do migration from App Search to Elasticsearch however I'm not sure how do I start with this : From App Search to Elasticsearch — Tap into the future of search | Elastic Blog

I did look into the documentation for the Python notebook :

github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-labs

notebooks/enterprise-search/app-search-engine-exporter.ipynb

main

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 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {
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   },
   "source": [
    "# App Search Engine exporter to Elasticsearch\n",
    "\n",
    "[![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/elastic/elasticsearch-labs/blob/main/notebooks/enterprise-search/app-search-engine-exporter.ipynb)\n",
    "\n",
    "This notebook explains the steps of exporting an App Search engine together with its configurations in Elasticsearch. This is not meant to be an exhaustive example for all App Search features as those will vary based on your instance, but is meant to give a sense of how you can export, migrate, and enhance your application.\n",
    "\n",
    "NOTE: This notebook is designed to work with Elasticsearch **8.18** or higher. If you are running this notebook against an older version of Elasticsearch, we note commands that will need to be modified.\n",
    "\n",
    "We will look at:\n",
    "\n",
    "- how to export synonyms\n",
    "- how to export curations\n",

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However, it seems like this notebook is for Elastic Cloud.

My current setup for Elastic is that we self-hosted, and the version we are in is 8.18.3

My App Search right now, there is 2 search engine that has been actively used, which is first is via Connector Microsoft SQL and second search engine is based on manually upload data into App Search engine.

I believe the one impacted would be data that has been upload manually into the App Search engine. The one I pull data via Connectors would not be impacted as its within Elasticsearch Indices, do correct me if I'm wrong.

Need help how do I migrate the data from App Search engine to Elasticsearch.

Thanks!

aisyaharifin · July 16, 2025, 4:17am

Hi I think I need confirmation if I really need to do the migration as I realized that all my data is within Elasticsearch Indices, and the fact that I manually upload but its through API, do my data need to be migrated?

Liam_Thompson · July 16, 2025, 9:30am

Hi there!

You can use the exporter notebook against a self-managed cluster, per these Elasticsearch Python client connection instructions. Let us know if you have any further trouble getting that working.

You'll have to decide for yourself if and when to migrate, knowing that App Search is not available in 9.0+ and you'll miss out on all the latest and greatest Elasticsearch features that are being added in each release.

This FAQ page should help with context and guidance in your decision.

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