[role="xpack"]
[[rollup-start-job]]
=== Start Job API
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<titleabbrev>Start Job</titleabbrev>
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experimental[]

This API starts an existing, stopped rollup job.  If the job does not exist an exception will be thrown.
Starting an already started job has no action.

==== Request

`POST _xpack/rollup/job/<job_id>/_start`

//===== Description

==== Path Parameters

`job_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the job


==== Request Body

There is no request body for the Start Job API.

==== Authorization

You must have `manage` or `manage_rollup` cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see
{xpack-ref}/security-privileges.html[Security Privileges].

==== Examples

If we have already created a rollup job named `sensor`, it can be started with:

[source,js]
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POST _xpack/rollup/job/sensor/_start
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:sensor_rollup_job]

Which will return the response:

[source,js]
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{
  "started": true
}
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// TESTRESPONSE

If however we try to start a job which doesn't exist:

[source,js]
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POST _xpack/rollup/job/does_not_exist/_start
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[catch:missing]

A 404 `resource_not_found` exception will be thrown:

[source,js]
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{
    "error" : {
        "root_cause" : [
            {
                "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
                "reason" : "Task for Rollup Job [does_not_exist] not found",
                "stack_trace": ...
            }
        ],
        "type" : "resource_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "Task for Rollup Job [does_not_exist] not found",
        "stack_trace": ...
    },
    "status": 404
}
----
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"stack_trace": \.\.\./"stack_trace": $body.$_path/]