diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/index_api/rest_handler.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/index_api/rest_handler.rs
index 287c365a3d7..603986d2686 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/index_api/rest_handler.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-serve/src/index_api/rest_handler.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ use quickwit_proto::metastore::{
     MetastoreService, MetastoreServiceClient, ResetSourceCheckpointRequest, ToggleSourceRequest,
 };
 use quickwit_proto::types::IndexUid;
+use quickwit_query::query_ast::{query_ast_from_user_text, QueryAst};
 use serde::de::DeserializeOwned;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use tracing::info;
@@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ pub fn index_management_handlers(
         .or(delete_source_handler(index_service.metastore()))
         // Tokenizer handlers.
         .or(analyze_request_handler())
+        // Parse query into query AST handler.
+        .or(parse_query_request_handler())
 }
 
 fn json_body<T: DeserializeOwned + Send>(
@@ -866,6 +869,50 @@ async fn analyze_request(request: AnalyzeRequest) -> Result<serde_json::Value, I
     Ok(json_value)
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize, utoipa::IntoParams, utoipa::ToSchema)]
+struct ParseQueryRequest {
+    /// Query text. The query language is that of tantivy.
+    pub query: String,
+    // Fields to search on.
+    #[param(rename = "search_field")]
+    #[serde(default)]
+    #[serde(rename(deserialize = "search_field"))]
+    #[serde(deserialize_with = "from_simple_list")]
+    pub search_fields: Option<Vec<String>>,
+}
+
+fn parse_query_request_filter(
+) -> impl Filter<Extract = (ParseQueryRequest,), Error = Rejection> + Clone {
+    warp::path!("parse-query")
+        .and(warp::post())
+        .and(warp::body::json())
+}
+
+fn parse_query_request_handler(
+) -> impl Filter<Extract = (impl warp::Reply,), Error = Rejection> + Clone {
+    parse_query_request_filter()
+        .then(parse_query_request)
+        .and(extract_format_from_qs())
+        .map(into_rest_api_response)
+}
+
+/// Analyzes text with given tokenizer config and returns the list of tokens.
+#[utoipa::path(
+    post,
+    tag = "parse_query",
+    path = "/parse_query",
+    request_body = ParseQueryRequest,
+    responses(
+        (status = 200, description = "Successfully parsed query into AST.")
+    ),
+)]
+async fn parse_query_request(request: ParseQueryRequest) -> Result<QueryAst, IndexServiceError> {
+    let query_ast = query_ast_from_user_text(&request.query, request.search_fields)
+        .parse_user_query(&[])
+        .map_err(|err| IndexServiceError::Internal(err.to_string()))?;
+    Ok(query_ast)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use std::ops::{Bound, RangeInclusive};
@@ -1917,4 +1964,24 @@ mod tests {
             expected: expected_response_json
         );
     }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn test_parse_query_request() {
+        let metastore = MetastoreServiceClient::mock();
+        let index_service = IndexService::new(
+            MetastoreServiceClient::from(metastore),
+            StorageResolver::unconfigured(),
+        );
+        let index_management_handler =
+            super::index_management_handlers(index_service, Arc::new(NodeConfig::for_test()))
+                .recover(recover_fn);
+        let resp = warp::test::request()
+            .path("/parse-query")
+            .method("POST")
+            .json(&true)
+            .body(r#"{"query": "field:this AND field:that"}"#)
+            .reply(&index_management_handler)
+            .await;
+        assert_eq!(resp.status(), 200);
+    }
 }