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Run a sample Lucene query in Grafana Explore to verify your Elasticsearch data is accessible.

Estimated time: 1 min

Explore Elasticsearch data in Grafana

In this milestone, you verify that your Elasticsearch data source is working by running a query in Grafana’s Explore.

  1. In the navigation menu, click Explore.

  2. From the data source dropdown at the top-left, select your Elasticsearch data source.

  3. In the Lucene Query field, enter a query. Use * to match all documents, or a term such as error to search log content.

    Elasticsearch uses Lucene query syntax. Boolean operators must be uppercase: AND, OR, NOT.

  4. Click Run query (or press Shift + Enter) to execute the query.

    You should see results in the panel below the query editor. If you see data, your Elasticsearch data source is working correctly.

Verify successful data access

After running your query, you should see:

  • Log lines or time series data displayed in the results panel
  • No connection errors or timeouts
  • Data that matches what you expect from your Elasticsearch index
  • The ability to modify the query and run different searches

Congratulations! You’ve successfully connected your Elasticsearch instance to Grafana Cloud and verified that data is accessible.