Percolate already indexed documents in bulk

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We would like to perform percolate on documents which are already indexed in elastic.

Ofcourse it is possible to do this as document here -
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-percolate-query.html#_percolating_an_existing_document

My first question is can I perform the same in bulk, not just a single document.

Further extending that question, can I request percolation on all documents within an index ?

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a percolate query is applied at search time within the search API.

the documents parameter helps you to pass a list of documents instead of a single doc with document
Also you can use _msearch if you wish but I suspect the previous option will be faster.

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Sure I'm exploring msearch as well.

Going back to the percolate search, are you saying that its possible to pass "documents" parameter in the context of already indexed document ?

Please note in my case both the search query and the actual document that contains the data are indexed within elastic as 2 separate indices.

As per - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-percolate-query.html#_parameters_10

the following are the only parameters (with few more optional which I'm not mentioning here)
index - The index the document resides in. This is a required parameter.
type - The type of the document to fetch. This is a required parameter.
id - The id of the document to fetch. This is a required parameter.

Am I missing something ?

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I think you can. But @mvg can probably tell more.

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Thanks David.

Hi @mvg , I came across this in the documentation -
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/breaking_60_percolator_changes.html#_deprecated_percolator_and_mpercolate_apis_have_been_removed

msearch replacing mpercolate. I'm trying to get my head around how msearch works with percolate.

Could you pls point to any simple example ?

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I got it working. My bad ! It was the way with which I structured the query in Kibana.

Thanks @dadoonet for responding. I'll take @mvg help for something interesting later.

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For the benefit of someone looking for something similar at a later point., here is an example of msearch with percolate ...

GET _msearch
{ "index" : "segmentation_filter"}
{"query" : { "percolate" : {"field": "criteria", "index" : "account", "type" : "default", "id" : 1 } } }
{ "index" : "segmentation_filter"}
{"query" : { "percolate" : {"field": "criteria", "index" : "account", "type" : "default", "id" : 2 } } }
{ "index" : "segmentation_filter"}
{"query" : { "percolate" : {"field": "criteria", "index" : "account", "type" : "default", "id" : 3 } } }