# Get a user profile

**GET /_security/profile/{uid}**

Get a user's profile using the unique profile ID.

NOTE: The user profile feature is designed only for use by Kibana and Elastic's Observability, Enterprise Search, and Elastic Security solutions.
Individual users and external applications should not call this API directly.
Elastic reserves the right to change or remove this feature in future releases without prior notice.

## Required authorization

* Cluster privileges: `read_security`



## Servers
- http://api.example.com: http://api.example.com ()


## Authentication methods
- Api key auth
- Basic auth
- Bearer auth


## Parameters

### Path parameters
- **uid** (string | array[string])
  A unique identifier for the user profile.

### Query parameters
- **data** (string | array[string])
  A comma-separated list of filters for the `data` field of the profile document.
  To return all content use `data=*`.
  To return a subset of content use `data=<key>` to retrieve content nested under the specified `<key>`.
  By default returns no `data` content.


## Responses
### 200


#### Body: application/json (object)
- **profiles** (array[object])
  A successful call returns the JSON representation of the user profile and its internal versioning numbers.
  The API returns an empty object if no profile document is found for the provided `uid`.
  The content of the data field is not returned by default to avoid deserializing a potential large payload.
- **errors** (object)



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