--
:api: put-job
:request: PutJobRequest
:response: PutJobResponse
--
[role="xpack"]
[id="{upid}-{api}"]
=== Create {anomaly-jobs} API

Creates a new {anomaly-job} in the cluster. The API accepts a +{request}+ object
as a request and returns a +{response}+.

[id="{upid}-{api}-request"]
==== Request

A +{request}+ requires the following argument:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request]
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<1> The configuration of the {anomaly-job} to create as a `Job`

[id="{upid}-{api}-config"]
==== Job configuration

The `Job` object contains all the details about the {anomaly-job}
configuration.

A `Job` requires the following arguments:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-config]
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<1> The job ID
<2> An analysis configuration
<3> A data description
<4> Optionally, a human-readable description

[id="{upid}-{api}-analysis-config"]
==== Analysis configuration

The analysis configuration of the {anomaly-job} is defined in the `AnalysisConfig`.
`AnalysisConfig` reflects all the configuration
settings that can be defined using the REST API.

Using the REST API, we could define this analysis configuration:

[source,js]
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"analysis_config" : {
  "bucket_span" : "10m",
  "detectors" : [
    {
      "detector_description" : "Sum of total",
      "function" : "sum",
      "field_name" : "total"
    }
  ]
}
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// NOTCONSOLE

Using the `AnalysisConfig` object and the high level REST client, the list
of detectors must be built first.

An example of building a `Detector` instance is as follows:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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<1> The function to use
<2> The field to apply the function to
<3> Optionally, a human-readable description

Then the same configuration would be:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-analysis-config]
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<1> Create a list of detectors
<2> Pass the list of detectors to the analysis config builder constructor
<3> The bucket span

[id="{upid}-{api}-data-description"]
==== Data description

After defining the analysis config, the next thing to define is the
data description, using a `DataDescription` instance. `DataDescription`
reflects all the configuration settings that can be defined using the
REST API.

Using the REST API, we could define this metrics configuration:

[source,js]
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"data_description" : {
  "time_field" : "timestamp"
}
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// NOTCONSOLE

Using the `DataDescription` object and the high level REST client, the same
configuration would be:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-data-description]
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<1> The time field

include::../execution.asciidoc[]

[id="{upid}-{api}-response"]
==== Response

The returned +{response}+ returns the full representation of
the new {ml} job if it has been successfully created. This will
contain the creation time and other fields initialized using
default values:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response]
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<1> The creation time is a field that was not passed in the `Job` object in the request
