diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/lib.rs b/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/lib.rs
index 8c948e486792a..7a2c20749ce05 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/lib.rs
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/lib.rs
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ pub extern "system" fn Java_org_opensearch_datafusion_jni_NativeBridge_executeQu
     shard_view_ptr: jlong,
     table_name: JString,
     substrait_bytes: jbyteArray,
+    is_query_plan_explain_enabled: jboolean,
     runtime_ptr: jlong,
     listener: JObject,
 ) {
@@ -513,6 +514,8 @@ pub extern "system" fn Java_org_opensearch_datafusion_jni_NativeBridge_executeQu
         }
     };
 
+    let is_query_plan_explain_enabled: bool = is_query_plan_explain_enabled !=0;
+
     let plan_bytes_obj = unsafe { JByteArray::from_raw(substrait_bytes) };
     let plan_bytes_vec = match env.convert_byte_array(plan_bytes_obj) {
         Ok(bytes) => bytes,
@@ -550,6 +553,7 @@ pub extern "system" fn Java_org_opensearch_datafusion_jni_NativeBridge_executeQu
             files_meta,
             table_name,
             plan_bytes_vec,
+            is_query_plan_explain_enabled,
             runtime,
             cpu_executor,
         ).await;
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/query_executor.rs b/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/query_executor.rs
index 4a78a9445f6b3..29e2184af4503 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/query_executor.rs
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/jni/src/query_executor.rs
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ pub async fn execute_query_with_cross_rt_stream(
     files_meta: Arc<Vec<CustomFileMeta>>,
     table_name: String,
     plan_bytes_vec: Vec<u8>,
+    is_query_plan_explain_enabled: bool,
     runtime: &DataFusionRuntime,
     cpu_executor: DedicatedExecutor,
 ) -> Result<jlong, DataFusionError> {
@@ -271,9 +272,11 @@ pub async fn execute_query_with_cross_rt_stream(
     }
 
 
-    // println!("Explain show");
-    // let clone_df = dataframe.clone().explain(false, true);
-    // clone_df?.show().await?;
+    if is_query_plan_explain_enabled {
+        println!("---- Explain plan ----");
+        let clone_df = dataframe.clone().explain(false, true).expect("Failed to explain plan");
+        clone_df.show().await?;
+    }
 
     let df_stream = match execute_stream(physical_plan, ctx.task_ctx()) {
         Ok(stream) => stream,
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DatafusionEngine.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DatafusionEngine.java
index 80ae9ced3d610..a346d121b882a 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DatafusionEngine.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DatafusionEngine.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.opensearch.OpenSearchException;
 import org.opensearch.action.search.SearchShardTask;
+import org.opensearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
 import org.opensearch.common.lease.Releasables;
 import org.opensearch.common.lucene.search.TopDocsAndMaxScore;
 import org.opensearch.common.util.BigArrays;
@@ -92,8 +93,8 @@ public DatafusionEngine(DataFormat dataFormat, Collection<FileMetadata> formatCa
     }
 
     @Override
-    public DatafusionContext createContext(ReaderContext readerContext, ShardSearchRequest request, SearchShardTarget searchShardTarget, SearchShardTask task, BigArrays bigArrays, SearchContext originalContext) throws IOException {
-        DatafusionContext datafusionContext = new DatafusionContext(readerContext, request, searchShardTarget, task, this, bigArrays, originalContext);
+    public DatafusionContext createContext(ReaderContext readerContext, ShardSearchRequest request, SearchShardTarget searchShardTarget, SearchShardTask task, BigArrays bigArrays, SearchContext originalContext, ClusterService clusterService) throws IOException {
+        DatafusionContext datafusionContext = new DatafusionContext(readerContext, request, searchShardTarget, task, this, bigArrays, originalContext, clusterService);
         // Parse source
         datafusionContext.datafusionQuery(new DatafusionQuery(request.shardId().getIndexName(), request.source().queryPlanIR(), new ArrayList<>()));
         return datafusionContext;
@@ -264,6 +265,8 @@ public void executeQueryPhase(DatafusionContext context) {
     public void executeQueryPhaseAsync(DatafusionContext context, Executor executor, ActionListener<Map<String, Object[]>> listener) {
         try {
             DatafusionSearcher datafusionSearcher = context.getEngineSearcher();
+            context.getDatafusionQuery().setQueryPlanExplainEnabled(context.evaluateSearchQueryExplainMode());
+
             datafusionSearcher.searchAsync(context.getDatafusionQuery(), datafusionService.getRuntimePointer()).whenCompleteAsync((streamPointer, error)-> {
                 Map<String, Object[]> finalRes = new HashMap<>();
                 List<Long> rowIdResult = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -395,7 +398,7 @@ public void executeFetchPhase(DatafusionContext context) throws IOException {
             includeFields.add(CompositeDataFormatWriter.ROW_ID);
         }
         excludeFields.addAll(context.mapperService().documentMapper().mapping().getMetadataStringNames());
-        excludeFields.add(SeqNoFieldMapper.PRIMARY_TERM_NAME); // TODO: check why _primary_term is not part of metadata mapper fields
+        excludeFields.add(SeqNoFieldMapper.PRIMARY_TERM_NAME);
 
         context.getDatafusionQuery().setSource(includeFields, excludeFields);
         DatafusionSearcher datafusionSearcher = context.getEngineSearcher();
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/jni/NativeBridge.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/jni/NativeBridge.java
index 573b7c09969fd..0c03356bab328 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/jni/NativeBridge.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/jni/NativeBridge.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ private NativeBridge() {}
     public static native void shutdownTokioRuntimeManager();
 
     // Query execution
-    public static native void executeQueryPhaseAsync(long readerPtr, String tableName, byte[] plan, long runtimePtr, ActionListener<Long> listener);
+    public static native void executeQueryPhaseAsync(long readerPtr, String tableName, byte[] plan, boolean isQueryPlanExplainEnabled, long runtimePtr, ActionListener<Long> listener);
     public static native long executeFetchPhase(long readerPtr, long[] rowIds, String[] includeFields, String[] excludeFields, long runtimePtr);
 
     // Stream operations
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionContext.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionContext.java
index 61b929c529eec..0c5f0f47b9231 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionContext.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionContext.java
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.opensearch.action.search.SearchShardTask;
 import org.opensearch.action.search.SearchType;
+import org.opensearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
 import org.opensearch.common.lease.Releasables;
+import org.opensearch.common.settings.ClusterSettings;
+import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.opensearch.common.unit.TimeValue;
 import org.opensearch.common.util.BigArrays;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.bytes.BytesReference;
 import org.opensearch.index.IndexService;
+import org.opensearch.index.IndexSettings;
 import org.opensearch.index.cache.bitset.BitsetFilterCache;
 import org.opensearch.index.mapper.MappedFieldType;
 import org.opensearch.index.mapper.MapperService;
@@ -65,6 +69,8 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
+import static org.opensearch.search.SearchService.CLUSTER_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING;
+
 /**
  * Search context for Datafusion engine
  */
@@ -90,6 +96,7 @@ public class DatafusionContext extends SearchContext {
     private int from;
     private int size;
     private final SearchContext originalContext;
+    private final ClusterService clusterService;
 
     /**
      * Constructor
@@ -105,7 +112,8 @@ public DatafusionContext(
         SearchShardTask task,
         DatafusionEngine engine,
         BigArrays bigArrays,
-        SearchContext originalContext) {
+        SearchContext originalContext,
+        ClusterService clusterService) {
         this.readerContext = readerContext;
         this.indexShard = readerContext.indexShard();
         this.request = request;
@@ -127,6 +135,7 @@ public DatafusionContext(
         this.originalContext = originalContext;
         this.size(Optional.ofNullable(request.source()).isPresent() ? request.source().size() : 0);
         this.from(Optional.ofNullable(request.source()).isPresent() ? request.source().from() : 0);
+        this.clusterService = clusterService;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -834,4 +843,18 @@ public Comparable<?> convertToComparable(Object rawValue) {
                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("Conversion to Comparable not supported for type " + rawValue.getClass());
         };
     }
+
+    public boolean evaluateSearchQueryExplainMode() {
+        Settings indexSettings = this.indexService.getIndexSettings().getSettings();
+        if (clusterService == null) {
+            return this.indexService.getIndexSettings().isSearchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled();
+        }
+
+        ClusterSettings clusterSettings = clusterService.getClusterSettings();
+
+        return indexSettings.getAsBoolean(
+            IndexSettings.INDEX_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING.getKey(),
+            clusterSettings.get(CLUSTER_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING)
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionQuery.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionQuery.java
index 1b61efb8da5ba..a14951ed8596e 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionQuery.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionQuery.java
@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ public class DatafusionQuery {
     private List<Long> queryPhaseRowIds;
     private List<String> includeFields;
     private List<String> excludeFields;
+    private Boolean isQueryPlanExplainEnabled;
 
     public DatafusionQuery(String indexName, byte[] substraitBytes, List<SearchExecutor> searchExecutors) {
         this.indexName = indexName;
         this.substraitBytes = substraitBytes;
         this.searchExecutors = searchExecutors;
         this.isFetchPhase = false;
+        this.isQueryPlanExplainEnabled = false;
     }
 
     public void setSource(List<String> includeFields, List<String> excludeFields) {
@@ -38,6 +40,14 @@ public void setFetchPhaseContext(List<Long> queryPhaseRowIds) {
         this.isFetchPhase = true;
     }
 
+    public void setQueryPlanExplainEnabled(Boolean queryPlanExplainEnabled) {
+        isQueryPlanExplainEnabled = queryPlanExplainEnabled;
+    }
+
+    public boolean getQueryPlanExplainEnabled() {
+       return isQueryPlanExplainEnabled;
+    }
+
     public boolean isFetchPhase() {
         return this.isFetchPhase;
     }
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionSearcher.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionSearcher.java
index e5aa28930bd87..744467b2cff66 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionSearcher.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/main/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/search/DatafusionSearcher.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public long search(DatafusionQuery datafusionQuery, Long runtimePtr) {
     @Override
     public CompletableFuture<Long> searchAsync(DatafusionQuery datafusionQuery, Long runtimePtr) {
         CompletableFuture<Long> result = new CompletableFuture<>();
-        NativeBridge.executeQueryPhaseAsync(reader.getReaderPtr(), datafusionQuery.getIndexName(), datafusionQuery.getSubstraitBytes(), runtimePtr, new ActionListener<Long>() {
+        NativeBridge.executeQueryPhaseAsync(reader.getReaderPtr(), datafusionQuery.getIndexName(), datafusionQuery.getSubstraitBytes(), datafusionQuery.getQueryPlanExplainEnabled(), runtimePtr, new ActionListener<Long>() {
             @Override
             public void onResponse(Long streamPointer) {
                 if (streamPointer == 0) {
diff --git a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/test/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DataFusionServiceTests.java b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/test/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DataFusionServiceTests.java
index 8bcbb468f0a55..f6b5c176e41bb 100644
--- a/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/test/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DataFusionServiceTests.java
+++ b/plugins/engine-datafusion/src/test/java/org/opensearch/datafusion/DataFusionServiceTests.java
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ public void testQueryThenFetchE2ETest() throws IOException, URISyntaxException,
         ReaderContext readerContext = createAndPutReaderContext(shardSearchRequest, indexService, indexShard, reader);
         SearchShardTarget searchShardTarget = new SearchShardTarget("node_1", new ShardId("index-7", "index-7", 0), null, OriginalIndices.NONE);
         SearchShardTask searchShardTask = new SearchShardTask(0, "n/a", "n/a", "test", null, Collections.singletonMap(Task.X_OPAQUE_ID, "my_id"));
-        DatafusionContext datafusionContext = new DatafusionContext(readerContext, shardSearchRequest, searchShardTarget, searchShardTask, engine, null, null);
+        DatafusionContext datafusionContext = new DatafusionContext(readerContext, shardSearchRequest, searchShardTarget, searchShardTask, engine, null, null, null);
 
         byte[] protoContent;
         try (InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/substrait_plan_test.pb")) {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
index c9f4d43d5a323..9b33bde32cb54 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
@@ -866,7 +866,9 @@ public void apply(Settings value, Settings current, Settings previous) {
                 ForceMergeManagerSettings.JVM_THRESHOLD_PERCENTAGE_FOR_AUTO_FORCE_MERGE,
                 ForceMergeManagerSettings.CONCURRENCY_MULTIPLIER,
                 StreamTransportService.STREAM_TRANSPORT_REQ_TIMEOUT_SETTING,
-                StreamSearchTransportService.STREAM_SEARCH_ENABLED
+                StreamSearchTransportService.STREAM_SEARCH_ENABLED,
+
+                SearchService.CLUSTER_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING
             )
         )
     );
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
index 8a5eafef4a10a..883c453a89e8b 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
@@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ public final class IndexScopedSettings extends AbstractScopedSettings {
                 IndexSettings.INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_SETTING,
                 IndexSettings.INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_TRANSLOG_ENABLED_SETTING,
 
+                IndexSettings.INDEX_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING,
+
                 // validate that built-in similarities don't get redefined
                 Setting.groupSetting("index.similarity.", (s) -> {
                     Map<String, Settings> groups = s.getAsGroups();
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
index 2abdf79584d82..43be50147aac4 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
@@ -803,6 +803,18 @@ public static IndexMergePolicy fromString(String text) {
         Property.Final
     );
 
+    public static final Setting<Boolean> INDEX_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING = Setting.boolSetting(
+        "index.search.query_plan.explain",
+        false,
+        Property.IndexScope,
+        Property.Dynamic
+    );
+
+    private void setSearchQueryPlanExplainEnabled(Boolean searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled) {
+        this.searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled = searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled;
+    }
+
+
     public static final Setting<Boolean> INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_TRANSLOG_ENABLED_SETTING = Setting.boolSetting(
         "index.derived_source.translog.enabled",
         INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_SETTING,
@@ -863,6 +875,7 @@ public static IndexMergePolicy fromString(String text) {
     private volatile boolean allowDerivedField;
     private final boolean derivedSourceEnabled;
     private volatile boolean derivedSourceEnabledForTranslog;
+    private boolean searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled;
 
     /**
      * The maximum age of a retention lease before it is considered expired.
@@ -1102,6 +1115,8 @@ public IndexSettings(final IndexMetadata indexMetadata, final Settings nodeSetti
         defaultSearchPipeline = scopedSettings.get(DEFAULT_SEARCH_PIPELINE);
         derivedSourceEnabled = scopedSettings.get(INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_SETTING);
         derivedSourceEnabledForTranslog = scopedSettings.get(INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_TRANSLOG_ENABLED_SETTING);
+        searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled = scopedSettings.get(INDEX_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING);
+        scopedSettings.addSettingsUpdateConsumer(INDEX_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING, this::setSearchQueryPlanExplainEnabled);
         scopedSettings.addSettingsUpdateConsumer(INDEX_DERIVED_SOURCE_TRANSLOG_ENABLED_SETTING, this::setDerivedSourceEnabledForTranslog);
         /* There was unintentional breaking change got introduced with [OpenSearch-6424](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/6424) (version 2.7).
          * For indices created prior version (prior to 2.7) which has IndexSort type, they used to type cast the SortField.Type
@@ -2166,4 +2181,8 @@ public boolean isDerivedSourceEnabledForTranslog() {
     public boolean isDerivedSourceEnabled() {
         return derivedSourceEnabled;
     }
+
+    public boolean isSearchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled() {
+        return searchQueryPlaneExplainEnabled;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/SearchExecEngine.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/SearchExecEngine.java
index 531e5ffa61b5d..cce57ed6eaeeb 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/SearchExecEngine.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/SearchExecEngine.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 package org.opensearch.index.engine;
 
 import org.opensearch.action.search.SearchShardTask;
+import org.opensearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
 import org.opensearch.common.annotation.ExperimentalApi;
 import org.opensearch.common.util.BigArrays;
 import org.opensearch.core.action.ActionListener;
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ public abstract class SearchExecEngine<C extends SearchContext, S extends Engine
     /**
      * Create a search context for this engine
      */
-    public abstract C createContext(ReaderContext readerContext, ShardSearchRequest request, SearchShardTarget searchShardTarget, SearchShardTask task, BigArrays bigArrays, SearchContext originalContext) throws IOException;
+    public abstract C createContext(ReaderContext readerContext, ShardSearchRequest request, SearchShardTarget searchShardTarget, SearchShardTask task, BigArrays bigArrays, SearchContext originalContext, ClusterService clusterService) throws IOException;
 
     /**
      * execute Query Phase
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/SearchService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/SearchService.java
index 8503f174cffc6..51b887c140359 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/SearchService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/SearchService.java
@@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ public class SearchService extends AbstractLifecycleComponent implements IndexEv
         Property.Deprecated
     );
 
+    public static final Setting<Boolean> CLUSTER_SEARCH_QUERY_PLAN_EXPLAIN_SETTING = Setting.boolSetting(
+        "search.query_plan.explain",
+        false,
+        Property.Dynamic,
+        Property.NodeScope
+    );
+
     public static final Setting<Boolean> QUERY_REWRITING_ENABLED_SETTING = Setting.boolSetting(
         "search.query_rewriting.enabled",
         false,
@@ -1460,7 +1467,7 @@ private SearchContext createContext(
             request.getClusterAlias(),
             OriginalIndices.NONE
         );
-        SearchContext context = searchExecEngine.createContext(readerContext, request, shardTarget, task, bigArrays, originalContext);
+        SearchContext context = searchExecEngine.createContext(readerContext, request, shardTarget, task, bigArrays, originalContext, clusterService);
         try {
             if (request.scroll() != null) {
                 context.scrollContext().scroll = request.scroll();