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Document operationsElasticsearch

POST <index>/_update/<id>

Perform partial updates or scripted transforms on documents.

Command
curl -X POST "http://:9200//_update/?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"doc":{"status":"processed"}}'

Example usage

Apply partial updates to document fields without reindexing everything.

curl -X POST "http://<host>:9200/<index>/_update/<id>?pretty" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"doc":{"status":"processed"}}'

Related tags

Document operationssearchobservabilityrest-api