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Get categories API
editGet categories API
editRetrieves job results for one or more categories.
Request
editGET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/results/categories
GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/results/categories/<category_id>
Description
editFor more information about categories, see Categorizing log messages.
Path Parameters
edit-
job_id
- (string) Identifier for the job.
-
category_id
- (long) Identifier for the category. If you do not specify this optional parameter, the API returns information about all categories in the job.
Request Body
edit-
page
-
-
from
- (integer) Skips the specified number of categories.
-
size
- (integer) Specifies the maximum number of categories to obtain.
-
Results
editThe API returns the following information:
-
categories
- (array) An array of category objects. For more information, see Categories.
Authorization
editYou must have monitor_ml
, monitor
, manage_ml
, or manage
cluster
privileges to use this API. You also need read
index privilege on the index
that stores the results. The machine_learning_admin
and machine_learning_user
roles provide these privileges. For more information, see
Security privileges and
Built-in roles.
Examples
editThe following example gets information about one category for the
esxi_log
job:
GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/esxi_log/results/categories { "page":{ "size": 1 } }
In this example, the API returns the following information:
{ "count": 11, "categories": [ { "job_id" : "esxi_log", "category_id" : 1, "terms" : "Vpxa verbose vpxavpxaInvtVm opID VpxaInvtVmChangeListener Guest DiskInfo Changed", "regex" : ".*?Vpxa.+?verbose.+?vpxavpxaInvtVm.+?opID.+?VpxaInvtVmChangeListener.+?Guest.+?DiskInfo.+?Changed.*", "max_matching_length": 154, "examples" : [ "Oct 19 17:04:44 esxi1.acme.com Vpxa: [3CB3FB90 verbose 'vpxavpxaInvtVm' opID=WFU-33d82c31] [VpxaInvtVmChangeListener] Guest DiskInfo Changed", "Oct 19 17:04:45 esxi2.acme.com Vpxa: [3CA66B90 verbose 'vpxavpxaInvtVm' opID=WFU-33927856] [VpxaInvtVmChangeListener] Guest DiskInfo Changed", "Oct 19 17:04:51 esxi1.acme.com Vpxa: [FFDBAB90 verbose 'vpxavpxaInvtVm' opID=WFU-25e0d447] [VpxaInvtVmChangeListener] Guest DiskInfo Changed", "Oct 19 17:04:58 esxi2.acme.com Vpxa: [FFDDBB90 verbose 'vpxavpxaInvtVm' opID=WFU-bbff0134] [VpxaInvtVmChangeListener] Guest DiskInfo Changed" ], "grok_pattern" : ".*?%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:timestamp}.+?Vpxa.+?%{BASE16NUM:field}.+?verbose.+?vpxavpxaInvtVm.+?opID.+?VpxaInvtVmChangeListener.+?Guest.+?DiskInfo.+?Changed.*" } ] }