Search - Match All Queries

Question 1

Simple Match All Query

Answer 1

This returns all documents in the index without any additional parameters.

{
“query”: {
“match_all”: {}
}
}

Question 2

Match All Query with Boost

Answer 2

This example assigns a boost value to prioritize the relevance of the retrieved documents
{
“query”: {
“match_all”: {
“boost”: 1.5
}
}
}

Question 3

Using with Filters

Answer 3

Match_all can be combined with filters or aggregations to retrieve documents and then apply additional operations.

{
“query”: {
“bool”: {
“must”: {
“match_all”: {}
},
“filter”: {
“term”: { “status”: “active” }
}
}
}
}