Delete anomaly detection jobs APIedit

Deletes an existing anomaly detection job.

Requestedit

DELETE _ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>

Prerequisitesedit

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

Descriptionedit

All job configuration, model state and results are deleted.

Deleting an anomaly detection job must be done via this API only. Do not delete the job directly from the .ml-* indices using the Elasticsearch delete document API. When Elasticsearch security features are enabled, make sure no write privileges are granted to anyone over the .ml-* indices.

Before you can delete a job, you must delete the datafeeds that are associated with it. See Delete Datafeeds. Unless the force parameter is used the job must be closed before it can be deleted.

It is not currently possible to delete multiple jobs using wildcards or a comma separated list.

Path parametersedit

<job_id>
(Required, string) Identifier for the anomaly detection job.

Query parametersedit

force
(Optional, boolean) Use to forcefully delete an opened job; this method is quicker than closing and deleting the job.
wait_for_completion
(Optional, boolean) Specifies whether the request should return immediately or wait until the job deletion completes. Defaults to true.

Examplesedit

The following example deletes the total-requests job:

DELETE _ml/anomaly_detectors/total-requests

When the job is deleted, you receive the following results:

{
  "acknowledged": true
}

In the next example we delete the total-requests job asynchronously:

DELETE _ml/anomaly_detectors/total-requests?wait_for_completion=false

When wait_for_completion is set to false, the response contains the id of the job deletion task:

{
  "task": "oTUltX4IQMOUUVeiohTt8A:39"
}