# Will Elasticsearch APIs support gRPC in the near future

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164 "2019-07-31T15:36:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![petra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@petra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/petra)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164/1 "2019-07-31T15:36:45Z")

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Hi,

My team is exploring the use case of having Elasticsearch as a primary datastore for a microservices container based application architecture. As a part of our exploration we are using gRPC/Protobuf for the communication between the microservices. As we are very enthousiastic about the Elastic Stack, we were wondering if the Elasticsearch APIs will support gRPC in the near future?

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164/2 "2019-07-31T15:49:31Z")

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No, there is no plan to support anything other than HTTP right now. What's wrong with HTTP?

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**Author:** ![petra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@petra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/petra)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164/3 "2019-07-31T15:57:29Z")

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Thank you, for your reply @DavidTurner.  
Just to clarify, there's nothing wrong with HTTP. For two reasons the gRPC/HTTP2 would be interesting for us: first, it might open possibilities to connect to our datastore streamingly; second, we could use the same protocol in communicating with the datastore as between our microservices (more uniformity).

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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:** [August 28, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-elasticsearch-apis-support-grpc-in-the-near-future/193164/4 "2019-08-28T15:57:41Z")

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