# Call to saved\_objects API fails with "illegal\_argument\_exception"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 4, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086 "2020-03-04T13:37:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@silentsurfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/silentsurfer)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086/1 "2020-03-04T13:37:38Z")
I'm on Elastic stack v 7.6 and trying to get the JSON representation of a Kibana index pattern via the saved\_objects API as explained [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-find.html).
I tried issuing a GET request via Postman to:
```
https://mydomain/api/saved_objects/_find?type=index-pattern&search_fields=title&search=logstash*
```
but get the following error:
```
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "request [/api/saved_objects/_find] contains unrecognized parameters: [search], [search_fields] -> did you mean [stored_fields]?"
}
],
"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "request [/api/saved_objects/_find] contains unrecognized parameters: [search], [search_fields] -> did you mean [stored_fields]?"
},
"status": 400
}
```
What am I doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@rudolf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rudolf)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086/2 "2020-03-05T09:52:15Z")
It seems like you might be sending this request to your Elasticsearch server instead of Kibana? The saved objects API is a Kibana API, so `https://mydomain` should point to Kibana.
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### Author:  [@silentsurfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/silentsurfer)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086/3 "2020-03-05T10:13:57Z")
Indeed, that solved the problem, thank you 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/call-to-saved-objects-api-fails-with-illegal-argument-exception/222086/4 "2020-04-02T10:14:00Z")
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