- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Installing X-Pack
- Migrating to X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Reporting from Kibana
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- X-Pack Settings
- X-Pack APIs
- Info API
- Security APIs
- Watcher APIs
- Graph APIs
- Machine Learning APIs
- Close Jobs
- Create Datafeeds
- Create Jobs
- Delete Datafeeds
- Delete Jobs
- Delete Model Snapshots
- Flush Jobs
- Get Buckets
- Get Categories
- Get Datafeeds
- Get Datafeed Statistics
- Get Influencers
- Get Jobs
- Get Job Statistics
- Get Model Snapshots
- Get Records
- Open Jobs
- Post Data to Jobs
- Preview Datafeeds
- Revert Model Snapshots
- Start Datafeeds
- Stop Datafeeds
- Update Datafeeds
- Update Jobs
- Update Model Snapshots
- Validate Detectors
- Validate Jobs
- Definitions
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 5.4 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Configuring Machine Learning
editConfiguring Machine Learning
editIf you want to use X-Pack machine learning features, there must be at least one machine learning node in your cluster and all master-eligible nodes must have machine learning enabled. By default, when you install X-Pack, all nodes are machine learning nodes. For more information about these settings, see Machine Learning Settings.
To use the X-Pack machine learning features to analyze your data, you must create a job and send your data to that job.
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If your data is stored in Elasticsearch:
- You can create a datafeed, which retrieves data from Elasticsearch for analysis.
- You can use Kibana to expedite the creation of jobs and datafeeds.
- If your data is not stored in Elasticsearch, you can POST data from any source directly to an API.
The results of machine learning analysis are stored in Elasticsearch and you can use Kibana to help you visualize and explore the results.
For a tutorial that walks you through these configuration steps, see Getting Started.
Though it is quite simple to analyze your data and provide quick machine learning results, gaining deep insights might require some additional planning and configuration. The scenarios in this section describe some best practices for generating useful machine learning results and insights from your data.