# How to get the "Advanced Settings" from the Dev Tools?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400 "2019-02-14T11:32:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HenrikT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@HenrikT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HenrikT)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400/1 "2019-02-14T11:32:48Z")

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Hello,

I'm using Kibana 6.5 and I would like to set the advanced settings in a script or similar without the need of the WebUI.

I saw this thread: [Advanced settings via config file possible?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advanced-settings-via-config-file-possible/68862)  
and it looked like what I wanted, but it didn't work for me I have made some changes to the advanced settings but when I run the GET that in that thread I get 0 hits back

```
{
  "took" : 0,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 0,
    "max_score" : null,
    "hits" : []
  }
}

```

Is there another way to do it in 6.5? should I use some other path?

I currently use this:

`GET .kibana/config/_search`

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400/2 "2019-02-14T18:39:01Z")

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Ah yeah, it's a little outdated. Elasticsearch is deprecating types so we moved types into the document in 6+.

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

```

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**Author:** ![HenrikT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@HenrikT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HenrikT)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400/3 "2019-02-15T07:30:51Z")

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Thanks so much! @jbudz

I did find just the normal .kibana/\_search but didn't know what to look for there since I had over 300 hits but it only showed the first 10.

But the query you gave me works great!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-advanced-settings-from-the-dev-tools/168400/4 "2019-03-15T07:30:51Z")

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