# Create SAML service provider metadata

**GET /_security/saml/metadata/{realm_name}**

Generate SAML metadata for a SAML 2.0 Service Provider.

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 Elasticsearch.


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


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


## Parameters

### Path parameters
- **realm_name** (string)
  The name of the SAML realm in Elasticsearch.



## Responses
### 200


#### Body: application/json (object)
- **metadata** (string)
  An XML string that contains a SAML Service Provider's metadata for the realm.


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