[role="xpack"]
[[ml-preview-datafeed]]
=== Preview {dfeeds-cap} API
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<titleabbrev>Preview {dfeeds-cap}</titleabbrev>
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The preview {dfeed} API enables you to preview a {dfeed}.


==== Request

`GET _xpack/ml/datafeeds/<datafeed_id>/_preview`


==== Description

The API returns the first "page" of results from the `search` that is created
by using the current {dfeed} settings. This preview shows the structure of
the data that will be passed to the anomaly detection engine.


==== Path Parameters

`datafeed_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the {dfeed}


==== Authorization

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


==== Examples

The following example obtains a preview of the `datafeed-farequote` {dfeed}:

[source,js]
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GET _xpack/ml/datafeeds/datafeed-farequote/_preview
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[skip:todo]

The data that is returned for this example is as follows:
[source,js]
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[
  {
    "@timestamp": 1454803200000,
    "airline": "AAL",
    "responsetime": 132.20460510253906
  },
  {
    "@timestamp": 1454803200000,
    "airline": "JZA",
    "responsetime": 990.4628295898438
  },
  {
    "@timestamp": 1454803200000,
    "airline": "JBU",
    "responsetime": 877.5927124023438
  },
  ...
]
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