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Create data frame analytics jobs APIedit

Instantiates a data frame analytics 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.

Requestedit

PUT _ml/data_frame/analytics/<data_frame_analytics_id>

Prerequisitesedit

  • You must have machine_learning_admin built-in role to use this API. You must also have read and view_index_metadata privileges on the source index and read, create_index, and index privileges on the destination index. For more information, see Security privileges and Built-in roles.

Descriptionedit

This API creates a data frame analytics job that performs an analysis on the source index and stores the outcome in a destination index.

The destination index will be automatically created if it does not exist. The index.number_of_shards and index.number_of_replicas settings of the source index will be copied over the destination index. When the source index matches multiple indices, these settings will be set to the maximum values found in the source indices.

The mappings of the source indices are also attempted to be copied over to the destination index, however, if the mappings of any of the fields don’t match among the source indices, the attempt will fail with an error message.

If the destination index already exists, then it will be use as is. This makes it possible to set up the destination index in advance with custom settings and mappings.

Supported fieldsedit

Outlier detectionedit

Outlier detection requires numeric or boolean data to analyze. The algorithms don’t support missing values therefore fields that have data types other than numeric or boolean are ignored. Documents where included fields contain missing values, null values, or an array are also ignored. Therefore the dest index may contain documents that don’t have an outlier score.

Path parametersedit

<data_frame_analytics_id>
(Required, string) A numerical character string that uniquely identifies the data frame analytics job. This identifier can contain lowercase alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9), hyphens, and underscores. It must start and end with alphanumeric characters.

Request bodyedit

analysis
(Required, object) Defines the type of data frame analytics you want to perform on your source index. For example: outlier_detection. See Analysis objects.
analyzed_fields

(Optional, object) You can specify both includes and/or excludes patterns. If analyzed_fields is not set, only the relevant fields will be included. For example, all the numeric fields for outlier detection. For the supported field types, see Supported fields. If you specify fields – either in includes or in excludes – that have a data type that is not supported, an error occurs.

includes
(Optional, array) An array of strings that defines the fields that will be included in the analysis.
excludes
(Optional, array) An array of strings that defines the fields that will be excluded from the analysis. You do not need to add fields with unsupported data types to excludes, these fields are excluded from the analysis automatically.
description
(Optional, string) A description of the job.
dest

(Required, object) The destination configuration, consisting of index and optionally results_field (ml by default).

index
(Required, string) Defines the destination index to store the results of the data frame analytics job.
results_field
(Optional, string) Defines the name of the field in which to store the results of the analysis. Default to ml.
model_memory_limit
(Optional, string) The approximate maximum amount of memory resources that are permitted for analytical processing. The default value for data frame analytics jobs is 1gb. If your elasticsearch.yml file contains an xpack.ml.max_model_memory_limit setting, an error occurs when you try to create data frame analytics jobs that have model_memory_limit values greater than that setting. For more information, see Machine learning settings.
source

(Required, object) The source configuration, consisting of index and optionally a query.

index
(Required, string or array) Index or indices on which to perform the analysis. It can be a single index or index pattern as well as an array of indices or patterns.
query
(Optional, object) The Elasticsearch query domain-specific language (DSL). This value corresponds to the query object in an Elasticsearch search POST body. All the options that are supported by Elasticsearch can be used, as this object is passed verbatim to Elasticsearch. By default, this property has the following value: {"match_all": {}}.

Examplesedit

The following example creates the loganalytics data frame analytics job, the analysis type is outlier_detection:

PUT _ml/data_frame/analytics/loganalytics
{
  "source": {
    "index": "logdata"
  },
  "dest": {
    "index": "logdata_out"
  },
  "analysis": {
    "outlier_detection": {
    }
  }
}

The API returns the following result:

{
  "id" : "loganalytics",
  "source" : {
    "index" : [
      "logdata"
    ],
    "query" : {
      "match_all" : { }
    }
  },
  "dest" : {
    "index" : "logdata_out",
    "results_field" : "ml"
  },
  "analysis" : {
    "outlier_detection" : { }
  },
  "model_memory_limit" : "1gb",
  "create_time" : 1562351429434,
  "version" : "7.3.0"
}
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