[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata]]
=== SAML service provider metadata API
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<titleabbrev>SAML service provider metadata</titleabbrev>
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Generate SAML metadata for a SAML 2.0 Service Provider.

[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_security/saml/metadata/<realm_name>`

[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

The SAML 2.0 specification provides a mechanism for Service Providers to
describe their capabilities and configuration using a metadata file. This API
generates Service Provider metadata, based on the configuration of a SAML realm
in {es}.

[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<realm_name>`::
  (Required, string) The name of the SAML realm in {es}.

[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata-response-body]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

`metadata`::
(string) An XML string that contains a SAML Service Provider's metadata for the realm.

[[security-api-saml-sp-metadata-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example generates Service Provider metadata for
SAML realm `saml1`:

[source,console]
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GET /_security/saml/metadata/saml1
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The API returns the following response containing the SAML metadata as an XML string:

[source,console-result]
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{
    "metadata" : "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><md:EntityDescriptor xmlns:md=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata\" entityID=\"https://kibana.org\"><md:SPSSODescriptor AuthnRequestsSigned=\"false\" WantAssertionsSigned=\"true\" protocolSupportEnumeration=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol\"><md:SingleLogoutService Binding=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Redirect\" Location=\"https://kibana.org/logout\"/><md:NameIDFormat>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient</md:NameIDFormat><md:AssertionConsumerService Binding=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST\" Location=\"https://kibana.org/api/security/v1/saml\" index=\"1\" isDefault=\"true\"/></md:SPSSODescriptor></md:EntityDescriptor>"
}
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