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stage: Enablement
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group: Global Search
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info: "To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments"
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type: reference
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# Advanced Search **(STARTER)**
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> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/109) in GitLab [Starter](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 8.4.
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NOTE:
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Advanced Search (powered by Elasticsearch) is enabled for Bronze and above on GitLab.com since 2020-07-10.
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Leverage Elasticsearch for faster, more advanced code search across your entire
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GitLab instance.
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This is the user documentation. To install and configure Elasticsearch,
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visit the [administrator documentation](../../integration/elasticsearch.md).
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## Overview
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The Advanced Search in GitLab is a powerful search service that saves
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you time. Instead of creating duplicate code and wasting time, you can
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now search for code within other projects that can help your own project.
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GitLab leverages the search capabilities of [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/) and enables it when
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searching in:
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- Projects
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- Issues
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- Merge requests
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- Milestones
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- Comments
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- Code
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- Commits
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- Wiki
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- Users
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## Use cases
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The Advanced Search can be useful in various scenarios.
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### Faster searches
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Advanced Search is based on Elasticsearch, which is a purpose built full text search engine that can be horizontally scaled so that it can provide search results in 1-2 seconds in most cases.
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### Promote innersourcing
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Your company may consist of many different developer teams each of which has
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their own group where the various projects are hosted. Some of your applications
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may be connected to each other, so your developers need to instantly search
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throughout the GitLab instance and find the code they search for.
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## Searching globally
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Just use the search as before and GitLab will show you matching code from each
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project you have access to.
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You can also use the [Advanced Search Syntax](advanced_search_syntax.md) which
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provides some useful queries.
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NOTE:
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Elasticsearch has only data for the default branch. That means that if you go
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to the repository tree and switch the branch from the default to something else,
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then the "Code" tab in the search result page will be served by the basic
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search even if Elasticsearch is enabled.
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