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Get Categories

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Get Categories

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The get categories API enables you to retrieve job results for one or more categories.

Request

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GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/results/categories

GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/results/categories/<category_id>

Description

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For more information about categories, see Categorizing log messages.

Path Parameters

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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

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page

from: (integer) Skips the specified number of categories.
size: (integer) Specifies the maximum number of categories to obtain.

Results

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The API returns the following information:

categories: (array) An array of category objects. For more information, see Categories.

Authorization

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You 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

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The following example gets information about one category for the it_ops_new_logs job:

GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/it_ops_new_logs/results/categories
{
  "page":{
    "size": 1
  }
}

In this example, the API returns the following information:

{
  "count": 11,
  "categories": [
    {
      "job_id": "it_ops_new_logs",
      "category_id": 1,
      "terms": "Actual Transaction Already Voided Reversed hostname dbserver.acme.com physicalhost esxserver1.acme.com vmhost app1.acme.com",
      "regex": ".*?Actual.+?Transaction.+?Already.+?Voided.+?Reversed.+?hostname.+?dbserver.acme.com.+?physicalhost.+?esxserver1.acme.com.+?vmhost.+?app1.acme.com.*",
      "max_matching_length": 137,
      "examples": [
        "Actual Transaction Already Voided / Reversed;hostname=dbserver.acme.com;physicalhost=esxserver1.acme.com;vmhost=app1.acme.com"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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