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Create filters API

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Create filters API

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Instantiates a filter.

Request

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PUT _ml/filters/<filter_id>

Prerequisites

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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have manage_ml or manage cluster privileges to use this API. See Security privileges and Machine learning security privileges.

Description

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A filter contains a list of strings. It can be used by one or more jobs. Specifically, filters are referenced in the custom_rules property of detector configuration objects.

Path parameters

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<filter_id>: (Required, string) A string that uniquely identifies a filter.

Request body

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description: (Optional, string) A description of the filter.
items: (Required, array of strings) The items of the filter. A wildcard * can be used at the beginning or the end of an item. Up to 10000 items are allowed in each filter.

Examples

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PUT _ml/filters/safe_domains
{
  "description": "A list of safe domains",
  "items": ["*.google.com", "wikipedia.org"]
}

When the filter is created, you receive the following response:

{
  "filter_id": "safe_domains",
  "description": "A list of safe domains",
  "items": ["*.google.com", "wikipedia.org"]
}

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