diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 521e5f30..35a5eb0d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ install:
 script:
   - export GO111MODULE=on
   - wget -q --waitretry=1 --retry-connrefused -T 10 -O - $ELASTICSEARCH_URL
+  # Opendistro lazily initializes it's indexes, warm it up here :|
+  # https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting/issues/60
+  - |
+    if [ -n "$ES_OPENDISTRO_IMAGE" ]; then curl -X POST -H 'Content-type: application/json'  -d '{"name":"_warmup","type":"slack","slack":{"url": "http://www.example.com"}}' 127.0.0.1:9220/_opendistro/_alerting/destinations; fi
   - TF_ACC=1 go test -v -cover
 before_deploy:
   - export GO111MODULE=on
diff --git a/data_source_elasticsearch_destination.go b/data_source_elasticsearch_destination.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..169164f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data_source_elasticsearch_destination.go
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
+
+	elastic7 "github.com/olivere/elastic/v7"
+	elastic6 "gopkg.in/olivere/elastic.v6"
+)
+
+const DESTINATION_NAME_FIELD = "destination.name.keyword"
+
+func dataSourceElasticsearchDestination() *schema.Resource {
+	return &schema.Resource{
+		Read: dataSourceElasticsearchDestinationRead,
+
+		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
+			"name": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Required: true,
+			},
+			"body": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeMap,
+				Computed: true,
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func dataSourceElasticsearchDestinationRead(d *schema.ResourceData, m interface{}) error {
+	destinationName := d.Get("name").(string)
+
+	response := new(destinationResponse)
+
+	// See https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting/issues/70, no tags or API endpoint for searching destination
+	var id string
+	var body *json.RawMessage
+	var err error
+	switch m.(type) {
+	case *elastic7.Client:
+		client := m.(*elastic7.Client)
+		id, body, err = elastic7Search(client, DESTINATION_INDEX, destinationName)
+	case *elastic6.Client:
+		client := m.(*elastic6.Client)
+		id, body, err = elastic6Search(client, DESTINATION_INDEX, destinationName)
+	default:
+		err = errors.New("destination resource not implemented prior to Elastic v6")
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	} else if id == "" {
+		// short circuit
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(*body, response); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("error unmarshalling destination body: %+v: %+v", err, body)
+	}
+
+	d.SetId(id)
+	d.Set("body", response.Destination.(map[string]interface{}))
+
+	return err
+}
+
+func elastic7Search(client *elastic7.Client, index string, name string) (string, *json.RawMessage, error) {
+	termQuery := elastic7.NewTermQuery(DESTINATION_NAME_FIELD, name)
+	result, err := client.Search().
+		Index(index).
+		Query(termQuery).
+		Do(context.TODO())
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, err
+	}
+	if result.TotalHits() == 1 {
+		return result.Hits.Hits[0].Id, &result.Hits.Hits[0].Source, nil
+	} else if result.TotalHits() < 1 {
+		return "", nil, err
+	} else {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("1 result expected, found %d.", result.TotalHits())
+	}
+}
+
+func elastic6Search(client *elastic6.Client, index string, name string) (string, *json.RawMessage, error) {
+	termQuery := elastic6.NewTermQuery(DESTINATION_NAME_FIELD, name)
+	result, err := client.Search().
+		Index(index).
+		Query(termQuery).
+		Do(context.TODO())
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, err
+	}
+	if result.TotalHits() == 1 {
+		return result.Hits.Hits[0].Id, result.Hits.Hits[0].Source, nil
+	} else if result.TotalHits() < 1 {
+		return "", nil, err
+	} else {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("1 result expected, found %d.", result.TotalHits())
+	}
+}
diff --git a/data_source_elasticsearch_destination_test.go b/data_source_elasticsearch_destination_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..823d0f64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data_source_elasticsearch_destination_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	elastic7 "github.com/olivere/elastic/v7"
+	elastic5 "gopkg.in/olivere/elastic.v5"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/resource"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/schema"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
+)
+
+func TestAccElasticsearchDataSourceDestination_basic(t *testing.T) {
+	provider := Provider().(*schema.Provider)
+	err := provider.Configure(&terraform.ResourceConfig{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("err: %s", err)
+	}
+	meta := provider.Meta()
+	var allowed bool
+	switch meta.(type) {
+	case *elastic7.Client:
+		allowed = false
+	case *elastic5.Client:
+		allowed = false
+	default:
+		allowed = true
+	}
+
+	resource.Test(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck: func() {
+			testAccPreCheck(t)
+			if !allowed {
+				t.Skip("Destinations only supported on ES 6, https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/alerting/issues/66")
+			}
+		},
+		Providers: testAccOpendistroProviders,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			{
+				Config: testAccElasticsearchDataSourceDestination,
+				Check: resource.ComposeAggregateTestCheckFunc(
+					resource.TestCheckResourceAttrSet("data.elasticsearch_destination.test", "id"),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
+var testAccElasticsearchDataSourceDestination = `
+resource "elasticsearch_destination" "test" {
+  body = <<EOF
+{
+  "name": "my-destination",
+  "type": "slack",
+  "slack": {
+    "url": "http://www.example.com"
+  }
+}
+EOF
+}
+
+data "elasticsearch_destination" "test" {
+  # Ugh, song and dance to get the json value to force dependency
+  name = "${element(list("my-destination", "${elasticsearch_destination.test.body}"), 0)}"
+}
+`
diff --git a/provider.go b/provider.go
index 62228b74..75aec18b 100644
--- a/provider.go
+++ b/provider.go
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ func Provider() terraform.ResourceProvider {
 			"elasticsearch_destination":         resourceElasticsearchDestination(),
 		},
 
+		DataSourcesMap: map[string]*schema.Resource{
+			"elasticsearch_destination": dataSourceElasticsearchDestination(),
+		},
+
 		ConfigureFunc: providerConfigure,
 	}
 }