[[ml-get-influencer]]
==== Get Influencers

The get influencers API allows you to retrieve information about the influencers in a job.

===== Request

`GET _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>/results/influencers`

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===== Description

OUTDATED?: The get job API can also be applied to all jobs by using `_all` as the job name.
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===== Path Parameters

`job_id`::
  (+string+) Identifier for the job.

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===== Results

The API returns information about the job resource. For more information, see
<<ml-job-resource,job resources>>.

===== Query Parameters

`_stats`::
(+boolean+; default: ++true++) If true (default false), will just validate the cluster definition but will not perform the creation

===== Responses

200
(EmptyResponse) The cluster has been successfully deleted
404
(BasicFailedReply) The cluster specified by {cluster_id} cannot be found (code: clusters.cluster_not_found)
412
(BasicFailedReply) The Elasticsearch cluster has not been shutdown yet (code: clusters.cluster_plan_state_error)

===== Examples

.Example results for a single job
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{
  "count": 1,
  "jobs": [
      {
      "job_id": "it-ops-kpi",
      "description": "First simple job",
      "create_time": 1491007356077,
      "finished_time": 1491007365347,
      "analysis_config": {
        "bucket_span": "5m",
        "latency": "0ms",
        "summary_count_field_name": "doc_count",
        "detectors": [
          {
            "detector_description": "low_sum(events_per_min)",
            "function": "low_sum",
            "field_name": "events_per_min",
            "detector_rules": []
          }
        ],
        "influencers": [],
        "use_per_partition_normalization": false
      },
      "data_description": {
        "time_field": "@timestamp",
        "time_format": "epoch_ms"
      },
      "model_plot_config": {
        "enabled": true
      },
      "model_snapshot_retention_days": 1,
      "model_snapshot_id": "1491007364",
      "results_index_name": "shared"
    }
  ]
}
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