- 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
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Validate Detectors
editValidate Detectors
editThe validate detectors API validates detector configuration information.
Request
editPOST _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/_validate/detector
Description
editThis API enables you validate the detector configuration before you create a job.
This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Request Body
editFor a list of the properties that you can specify in the body of this API, see detector configuration objects.
Authorization
editYou must have manage_ml, or manage cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see Cluster Privileges.
Examples
editThe following example validates detector configuration information:
POST _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/_validate/detector { "function": "metric", "field_name": "responsetime", "by_field_name": "airline" }
When the validation completes, you receive the following results:
{ "acknowledged": true }