Random access pagination with search_after on Elasticsearch

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Welcome

Have a look at The search API | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic

About deep pagination, you can use:

  • the size and from parameters to display by default up to 10000 records to your users. If you want to change this limit, you can change index.max_result_window setting but be aware of the consequences (ie memory).
  • the search after feature to do deep pagination.
  • the Scroll API if you want to extract a resultset to be consumed by another tool later. (Not recommended anymore)

Note that from a end user perspective, going randomly to page 1076 (for example) does not make really sense IMO.
What is your use case?