---
layout: docs
page_title: search Stanza - Agent Configuration
sidebar_title: search
description: >-
  The "search" stanza specifies configuration for the search API provided
  by the Nomad servers.
---

# `search` Stanza

<Placement
  groups={[
    ['server', 'search'],
  ]}
/>

The `search` stanza specifies configuration for the search API provided by the
Nomad servers.

```hcl
server {
  search {
    fuzzy_enabled   = true
    limit_query     = 200
    limit_results   = 1000
    min_term_length = 5
  }
}
```

## `search` Parameters

- `fuzzy_enabled` `(bool: true)` - Specifies whether the [fuzzy search API][fuzzy]
  is enabled. If not enabled, requests to the fuzzy search API endpoint will return
  an error response.

- `limit_query` `(int: 20)` - Specifies the maximum number of Nomad objects to
  search through per context type in the Nomad server before truncating results.
  Setting this parameter to a high value may degrade Nomad server performance.

- `limit_results` `(int: 100)` - Specifies the maximum number of matching results
  to accumulate per context type in the API response before truncating results.
  Setting this parameter to a high value may cause excessively large API response sizes.

- `min_term_length` `(int: 2)` - Specifies the minimum size of the search term
  allowed for matching with the fuzzy search API. Setting this value higher can
  prevent unnecessary load on the Nomad server from broad queries.

[fuzzy]: /api-docs/search#fuzzy-searching
