[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-get-job]]
=== Get {anomaly-jobs} API
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<titleabbrev>Get jobs</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves configuration information for {anomaly-jobs}.

[[ml-get-job-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>` +

`GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/<job_id>,<job_id>` +

`GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/` +

`GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/_all`

[[ml-get-job-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have `monitor_ml`,
`monitor`, `manage_ml`, or `manage` cluster privileges to use this API. See
{stack-ov}/security-privileges.html[Security privileges].

[[ml-get-job-desc]]
==== {api-description-title}

You can get information for multiple {anomaly-jobs} in a single API request by
using a group name, a comma-separated list of jobs, or a wildcard expression.
You can get information for all {anomaly-jobs} by using `_all`, by specifying
`*` as the `<job_id>`, or by omitting the `<job_id>`.

IMPORTANT: This API returns a maximum of 10,000 jobs. 

[[ml-get-job-path-parms]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<job_id>`::
  (Optional, string) Identifier for the {anomaly-job}. It can be a job
  identifier, a group name, or a wildcard expression. If you do not specify one
  of these options, the API returns information for all {anomaly-jobs}.

[[ml-get-job-query-parms]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

`allow_no_jobs`::
  (Optional, boolean) Specifies what to do when the request:
+
--
* Contains wildcard expressions and there are no jobs that match.
* Contains the `_all` string or no identifiers and there are no matches.
* Contains wildcard expressions and there are only partial matches.

The default value is `true`, which returns an empty `jobs` array 
when there are no matches and the subset of results when there are partial 
matches. If this parameter is `false`, the request returns a `404` status code
when there are no matches or only partial matches.
--

[[ml-get-job-results]]
==== {api-response-body-title}

The API returns the following information:

`jobs`::
  (array) An array of {anomaly-job} resources.
  For more information, see <<ml-job-resource>>.

[[ml-get-job-response-codes]]
==== {api-response-codes-title}

`404` (Missing resources)::
  If `allow_no_jobs` is `false`, this code indicates that there are no 
  resources that match the request or only partial matches for the request.

[[ml-get-job-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example gets configuration information for the `total-requests` job:

[source,console]
--------------------------------------------------
GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/total-requests
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// TEST[skip:setup:server_metrics_job]

The API returns the following results:

[source,console-result]
----
{
  "count": 1,
  "jobs": [
    {
      "job_id": "total-requests",
      "job_type": "anomaly_detector",
      "job_version": "7.0.0-alpha1",
      "description": "Total sum of requests",
      "create_time": 1517011406091,
      "analysis_config": {
        "bucket_span": "10m",
        "detectors": [
          {
            "detector_description": "Sum of total",
            "function": "sum",
            "field_name": "total",
            "detector_index": 0
          }
        ],
        "influencers": [ ]
      },
      "analysis_limits": {
        "model_memory_limit": "1024mb",
        "categorization_examples_limit": 4
      },
      "data_description": {
        "time_field": "timestamp",
        "time_format": "epoch_ms"
      },
      "model_snapshot_retention_days": 1,
      "results_index_name": "shared"
    }
  ]
}
----
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"7.0.0-alpha1"/$body.$_path/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/1517011406091/$body.$_path/]