## Search assets

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/product/capabilities/build-apps/sdks/python/search/references

> Search and filter assets programmatically using the Atlan Python SDK (pyatlan) with queries, attributes, sorting, and pagination.

# Search assets

Atlan uses [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co) to power its search. For ultimate flexibility, Atlan also adopted [Elastic's query DSL](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl.html).

> **Warning: Atlan's search index is eventually consistent**
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> Atlan's search index is updated asynchronously from metadata being persisted to the metastore. So there can be small delays between a create, update, or delete operation completing and being able to search for that same information. Usually this is almost immediate (less than 1 second), but if in code you try to immediately search for something you created or updated you may need a retry loop to find it.

_Last updated: 15 May 2026._

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