From 0a7664e1908b5bf124f82a613ed32bc15f76b013 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Rodewig <james.rodewig@elastic.co>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:50:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Add data streams to validate query API (#59420)
 (#59436)

---
 docs/reference/search/validate.asciidoc | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/reference/search/validate.asciidoc b/docs/reference/search/validate.asciidoc
index 3e61f43b9b5..9231e1e854a 100644
--- a/docs/reference/search/validate.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/search/validate.asciidoc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ GET twitter/_validate/query?q=user:foo
 [[search-validate-api-request]]
 ==== {api-request-title}
 
-`GET /<index>/_validate/<query>`
+`GET /<target>/_validate/<query>`
 
 
 [[search-validate-api-desc]]
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ request body.
 [[search-validate-api-path-params]]
 ==== {api-path-parms-title}
 
-include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index]
+`<target>`::
+(Optional, string)
+Comma-separated list of data streams, indices, and index aliases to search.
+Wildcard (`*`) expressions are supported.
++
+To search all data streams or indices in a cluster, omit this parameter or use
+`_all` or `*`.
 
 include::{es-repo-dir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=query]