> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Search around an event

> Fetch the events before and after a given one.

```http theme={null}
POST /api/v1/query/search_around
```

Returns the events immediately before and after a pointer within a ±24-hour search window. Counts
default to 50 and are clamped to 1–1000. The operation requires `streams.query`; system telemetry
access may use `sys.telemetry.read`.

**Body**

| Field                | Type    | Required | Default |
| -------------------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| `event_timestamp_us` | integer | ✅        | —       |
| `stream`             | string  | ✅        | —       |
| `stream_type`        | string  | ✅        | —       |
| `event_fingerprint`  | string  | —        | —       |
| `before`             | integer | —        | 50      |
| `after`              | integer | —        | 50      |

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 theme={null}
  {
    "pointer": {
      "ts": 1700000000000000,
      "fingerprint": null
    },
    "before": {
      "columns": ["_timestamp", "msg"],
      "rows": [[1700000000000000, "..."]],
      "scanned_rows": 100,
      "took_ms": 4
    },
    "after": {
      "columns": ["_timestamp", "msg"],
      "rows": [[1700000000500000, "..."]],
      "scanned_rows": 100,
      "took_ms": 4
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>