kibana/oas_docs
Jen Huang 3f90203406
[UII] Support searchAfter and PIT (point-in-time) parameters for get agents list API (#213486)
## Summary

Resolves https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/206924.

This PR adds the following query parameters to the agent list API (`GET
/api/fleet/agents`) in order to enable fetching beyond the first 10,000
hits:
```
    searchAfter?: string;
    openPit?: boolean;
    pitId?: string;
    pitKeepAlive?: string;
```

The list agent API response can now include the following properties
```
    // the PIT ID used
    pit?: string;

    // stringified version of the last agent's `sort` field,
    // can be passed as `searchAfter` in the next request
    nextSearchAfter? string;
```

* `searchAfter` can be used with or without a `pitId`. If using
`searchAfter`, `page` parameter is not accepted.

* `searchAfter` expects a stringified array. (Reviewers: I couldn't get
the Kibana request schema to accept a multi-part query param and convert
it to an array... I think this would be better, please let me know if
you know how to get that to work 🙏)

* `pitKeepAlive` duration (i.e. `30s`, `1m`, etc) must be present when
opening a PIT or retrieving results using a PIT ID.

* These can be used with the existing `sortField` and `sortOrder`
params. They default to `enrolled_at` and `desc` respectively.

### Example using only `searchAfter`:

```
# Retrieve the first 10k hits
curl -X GET 'http://<user>:<pass>@<kibana url>/api/fleet/agents?perPage=10000'

# Grab the `nextSearchAfter` param from the response
# Pass it to the new request to retrieve the next page of 10k hits
curl -X GET 'http://<user>:<pass>@<kibana url>/api/fleet/agents?perPage=10000&searchAfter=<nextSearchAfter>'
```

### Example using `searchAfter` with point-in-time parameters:
```
# Retrieve the first 10k hits and open a PIT
curl -X GET 'http://<user>:<pass>@<kibana url>/api/fleet/agents?perPage=10000&openPit=true&pitKeepAlive=5m'

# Grab the `pit` ID from the response
# Grab the `nextSearchAfter` param from the response
# Pass both to the new request to retrieve the next page of 10k hits
curl -X GET 'http://<user>:<pass>@<kibana url>/api/fleet/agents?perPage=10000&searchAfter=<nextSearchAfter>&pitId=<pit id>&pitKeepAlive=5m'
```

## Testing
I recommend using `scripts/create_agents` to generate bulk agents and
testing the above requests. You can generate new agents between PIT
requests to test that using a PIT ID retains the original state. (An API
functional test was added for this)

Note: you may need to add `&showInactive=true` to all requests if your
fake agents become inactive.

TBD

### Checklist

Check the PR satisfies following conditions. 

Reviewers should verify this PR satisfies this list as well.

- [x] [Unit or functional
tests](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-tests.html)
were updated or added to match the most common scenarios
- [x] The PR description includes the appropriate Release Notes section,
and the correct `release_note:*` label is applied per the
[guidelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/contributing.html#kibana-release-notes-process)

---------

Co-authored-by: kibanamachine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-03-07 16:01:49 -08:00
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examples [DOCS] Remove inference connector docs (#198633) 2024-11-12 11:56:37 -06:00
linters [OpenAPI] Add redocly lint configuration (#199360) 2024-11-08 14:07:55 -06:00
output [UII] Support searchAfter and PIT (point-in-time) parameters for get agents list API (#213486) 2025-03-07 16:01:49 -08:00
overlays [OAS] Remove Elastic-Api-Version (#207071) 2025-01-30 16:59:45 +01:00
scripts SKA: Relocate core mock and test-helper modules (#208538) 2025-01-29 12:14:44 +01:00
bundle.json [UII] Support searchAfter and PIT (point-in-time) parameters for get agents list API (#213486) 2025-03-07 16:01:49 -08:00
bundle.serverless.json [UII] Support searchAfter and PIT (point-in-time) parameters for get agents list API (#213486) 2025-03-07 16:01:49 -08:00
kibana.info.serverless.yaml [DOCS] Remove technical preview from serverless APIs (#201054) 2024-11-21 09:45:10 +01:00
kibana.info.yaml [OpenAPI] Fix Serverless API base URL (#202373) 2024-12-02 12:09:03 -08:00
makefile [OAS] Publish OAS bundles to bump.sh (#197482) 2024-11-14 09:15:47 +01:00
package-lock.json Update dependency @redocly/cli to ^1.29.0 (main) (#212048) 2025-02-22 14:21:39 +00:00
package.json Update dependency @redocly/cli to ^1.29.0 (main) (#212048) 2025-02-22 14:21:39 +00:00
README.md SKA: Relocate "platform" packages that remain on /packages (#208704) 2025-02-24 11:03:30 +00:00

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Step 0

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Step 1

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