[role="xpack"]
[[ml-valid-detector]]
=== Validate Detectors API
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<titleabbrev>Validate Detectors </titleabbrev>
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Validates detector configuration information.

==== Request

`POST _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/_validate/detector`

==== Description

The validate detectors API enables you validate the detector configuration
before you create a job.


==== Request Body

For a list of the properties that you can specify in the body of this API,
see <<ml-detectorconfig,detector configuration objects>>.


==== Authorization

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


==== Examples

The following example validates detector configuration information:

[source,js]
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POST _xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/_validate/detector
{
  "function": "metric",
  "field_name": "responsetime",
  "by_field_name": "airline"
}
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// CONSOLE

When the validation completes, you receive the following results:
[source,js]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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// TESTRESPONSE