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Get inference APIedit
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.
Retrieves inference model information.
Requestedit
GET /_inference/_all
GET /_inference/<task_type>/_all
GET /_inference/<task_type>/<model_id>
Prerequisitesedit
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Requires the
managecluster privilege.
Descriptionedit
You can get information in a single API request for:
- a single inference model by providing the task type and the model ID,
- all of the inference models for a certain task type by providing the task type and a wildcard expression,
- all of the inference models by using a wildcard expression.
Path parametersedit
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<model_id> - (Optional, string) The unique identifier of the inference model.
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<task_type> - (Optional, string) The type of inference task that the model performs.
Examplesedit
The following API call retrives information about the my-elser-model inference
model that can perform sparse_embedding tasks.
GET _inference/sparse_embedding/my-elser-model
The API returns the following response:
{
"model_id": "my-elser-model",
"task_type": "sparse_embedding",
"service": "elser",
"service_settings": {
"num_allocations": 1,
"num_threads": 1
},
"task_settings": {}
}