[role="xpack"]
[[list-analytics-collection]]
=== List Analytics Collections

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<titleabbrev>List Analytics Collections</titleabbrev>
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Returns information about Analytics Collections.

[[list-analytics-collection-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET _application/analytics/<criteria>`

[[list-analytics-collection-prereq]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

Requires the `manage_behavioral_analytics` cluster privilege.

[[list-analytics-collection-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<criteria>`::
(optional, string)
Criteria is used to find a matching analytics collection. This could be the name of the collection or a pattern to match multiple. If not specified, will return all analytics collections.

[[list-analytics-collection-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`404`::
Criteria does not match any Analytics Collections.

==== {api-response-codes-title}

[[list-analytics-collection-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example lists all configured Analytics Collections:

[source,console]
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GET _application/analytics/
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// TEST[skip:TBD]

A sample response:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "my_analytics_collection": {
      "event_data_stream": {
          "name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection"
      }
  },
  "my_analytics_collection2": {
      "event_data_stream": {
          "name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection2"
      }
  }
}
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The following example returns the Analytics Collection that matches `my_analytics_collection`:

[source,console]
----
GET _application/analytics/my_analytics_collection
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// TEST[skip:TBD]

A sample response:

[source,console-result]
----
{
  "my_analytics_collection": {
      "event_data_stream": {
          "name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection"
      }
  }
}
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The following example returns all Analytics Collections prefixed with `my`:

[source,console]
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GET _application/analytics/my*
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// TEST[skip:TBD]

A sample response:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "my_analytics_collection": {
      "event_data_stream": {
          "name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection"
      }
  },
  "my_analytics_collection2": {
      "event_data_stream": {
          "name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection2"
      }
  }
}
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// TEST[skip:TBD]