How to get kibana advanced settings from API?

[sudosu]

Hi
I would like to get the advanced settings in kibana from an API call.
I tried

GET .kibana/_search 
{
  "query": {
    "term":  { 
      "type": { 
        "value": "config" 
      } 
    }
  }
}```

but I am getting this under source 

    ```
"_source" : {
          "config" : {
            "buildNum" : 30896,
            "defaultIndex" : "ff959d40-b880-11e8-a6d9-e546fe2bba5f"
          },
          "type" : "config",
          "references" : [ ],
          "updated_at" : "2020-06-11T13:54:14.909Z"
        }

I am trying to retrieve the Date format, the CSV separator, Formatting locale, the darkmode and so on. But as we can see from the response above they are not there.
Any Idea where I can find them through an API call?
Thanks

[matw (Matthias Wilhelm)]

Hi
Sorry, but you can't. you can only retrieve the values you set manually, so if css separator, formatting locale, dark mode were set, you could retrieve them with your request.

Best,
Matthias

[sudosu]

@sudosu

call

Thanks for your reply.
Where do I have to set them manually?

Thanks

[matw (Matthias Wilhelm)]

You mean via API and not UI?

[sudosu]

@matw

request

Both I tried on the UI and I c'ant get the settings.

[matw (Matthias Wilhelm)]

Hi

Which version of Kibana are you using? here are the docs of our advanced settings:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html

Best,
Matthias

[sudosu]

My kibana version is 7.6.1.
After setting the csv separator, formatting locale and dark mode using the UI on the advanced setting page, I still can't get them using the request above. They are not showing up in the response.

[matw (Matthias Wilhelm)]

ok, thx, I will check this

[matw (Matthias Wilhelm)]

This should work if you set it to a non-default value:

[sudosu]

ok thanks very much.