# Source: https://docs.vespa.ai/en/reference/api/config-v2.html.md

# Config API

 

Vespa provides a REST API for listing and retrieving config - alternatives are the [programmatic Java API](../../applications/configapi-dev.html#the-java-config-api). The Config API provides a way to inspect and retrieve all the config that can be generated by the config model for a given [tenant's active application](deploy-v2.html). Some, but not necessarily all, of those configs are used by services by [subscribing](../../applications/configapi-dev.html) to them.

The response format is JSON. The current API version is 2. All config servers provide the REST API. The API port is 19071 - use [vespa-model-inspect](../operations/self-managed/tools.html#vespa-model-inspect) service configserver to find config server hosts. Example: `http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/msbe/application/articlesearch/`

The API is available after an application has been [deployed and activated](../../basics/applications.html#deploying-applications).

## The application id

The API provides two ways to identify your application, given a tenant: one using only an application name, and one using application name, environment, region and instance. For the former, "short" form, a default environment, region and instance is used.

More formally, an _application id_ is a tuple of the form (_application_, _environment_, _region_, _instance_). The system currently provides shorthand to the id (_application_, "default", "default", "default").

Note: Multiple environments, regions and instances are not currently supported for application deployments, _default_ is always used.

Example URL using only application name: `http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/media/application/articlesearch/media.config.server-list/clusters/0`

| Part | Description |
| --- | --- |
| media | Tenant |
| articlesearch | Application |
| media.config | Namespace of the requested config |
| server-list | Name of the requested config |
| clusters/0 | Config id of the requested config |

Example URL using full application id:`http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/media/application/articlesearch/environment/test/region/us/instance/staging/media.config.server-list/clusters/0`

| Part | Description |
| --- | --- |
| media | Tenant |
| articlesearch | Name of the application |
| test | Environment |
| us | Region |
| staging | Instance |
| media.config | Namespace of the requested config |
| server-list | Name of the requested config |
| clusters/0 | Config id of the requested config |

In this API specification, the short form of the application id, i.e. only the application name, is used. The tenant `mytenant` and the application name `myapplication` is used throughout in examples.

## GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/

List the configs in the model, as [config id](../../applications/configapi-dev.html#config-id) specific URLs.

| Parameters | 

| Parameter | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| recursive | false | If true, include each config id in the model which produces the config, and list only the links to the config payload. If false, include the first level of the config ids in the listing of new list URLs, as explained above. |

 |
| Request body | None |
| Response | 

A list response includes two arrays:

- List-links to descend one level down in the config id hierarchy, named `children`.
- [Config payload](#payload) links for the current (top) level, named `configs`.

 |
| Error Response | 

N/A

 |

Examples:

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/`

```
```
{
    "children": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.sentinel/myconfigserver.mydomain.com/",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.sentinel/hosts/",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.model/admin/",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/container.components/search/"
    ],

    "configs": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.sentinel",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.model",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/container.components"
    ]
```
```

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/?recursive=true`

```
```
{
  "configs": [
    "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.sentinel/myconfigserver.mydomain.com",
    "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/config.sentinel/hosts/myconfigserver.mydomain.com"
```
```

## GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/

| Parameters | 

Same as above.

 |
| Request body | None |
| Response | 

List the configs in the model with the given namespace and name. List semantics as above.

 |
| Error Response | 

404 if the given namespace.name is not known to the config model.

 |

Examples:

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/`

```
```
{
    "children": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/clients/",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v1/vespaclient.config.feeder/docproc/"
    ]
    "configs": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder",
    ]
}
```
```

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/?recursive=true`

```
```
{
    "configs": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/qrsclusters/default",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/clients/gateways",
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/clients/gateways/gateway",
```
```

## GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/[config/subid]/

| Parameters | 

Same as above.

 |
| Request body | None |
| Response | 

List the configs in the model with the given namespace and name, and for which the given config id segment is a prefix.

 |
| Error Response | 

- 404 if the given namespace.name is not known to the config model.
- 404 if the given config id is not in the model.

 |

Examples:

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/`

```
```
{
    "children": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/qrsclusters/"
    ]
    "configs": [
        "http://myconfigserver.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search"
    ]
}
```
```

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/?recursive=true`

```
```
{
    "configs": [
        "http://myhost.mydomain.com:19071/config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/vespaclient.config.feeder/search/qrsclusters/default"
    ]
}
```
```

## GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/[config/id]

| Parameters | 

None

 |
| Request body | None |
| Response | 

Returns the config payload of the given `namespace.name/config/id`, formatted as JSON.

 |
| Error Response | 

Same as above.

 |

Example:

`GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/container.core.container-http/search/qrsclusters/default/qrserver.0`

```
```
{
    "enabled": "true",
    "requestbuffersize": "65536",
    "port": {
        "search": "8080",
        "host": ""
    },
    "fileserver": {
        "throughsearch": "true"
    }
}
```
```

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### On this page:

- [The application id](#application-id)
- [GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/](#list-configs)
- [GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/](#list-namespace)
- [GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/[config/subid]/](#list-prefix)
- [GET /config/v2/tenant/mytenant/application/myapplication/[namespace.name]/[config/id]](#payload)