Representing a Kibana query in a REST, curl form

Question

I have a Kibana server in a classic ELK configuration, querying an Elasticsearch instance.

I use the Kibana console to execute sophisticated queries on elasticsearc

Answer 1

Another option would be to query Elastic Search using lucene queries (same syntax Kibana uses) using the ES search API query_string queries:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html

Taken from one of the doc example, you would query ES using something like this:

GET /_search
{
    "query": {
        "query_string" : {
            "default_field" : "content",
            "query" : "this AND that OR thus"
        }
    }
}