# Elasticsearch document version is not available?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-version-is-not-available/166778
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-version-is-not-available/166778 "2019-02-01T19:24:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@lvic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lvic)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-version-is-not-available/166778/1 "2019-02-01T19:24:09Z")
ES documentation states that every document is versioned, but when i get document via REST API i don't see attribute \_version, for example:
[http://eshost:9200/my\_index/\_search?q=my\_id:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx](http://eshost:9200/my_index/_search?q=my_id:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx)
returns:
{
"took": 3,
"timed\_out": false,
"\_shards": {
"total": 5,
"successful": 5,
"skipped": 0,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max\_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"\_index": "my\_index",
"\_type": "mytype",
"\_id": "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx ",
"\_score": 1,
"\_source": {....}
}
]
}}
Do I understand docs incorrectly ( no default version)? Or, do I need something specific in REST call to get \_version?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-version-is-not-available/166778/2 "2019-02-03T01:56:40Z")
Try getting the document itself, not via a search.
ie `GET http://eshost:9200/my_index/mytype/xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-version-is-not-available/166778/3 "2019-03-03T01:56:46Z")
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