[role="xpack"]
[testenv="platinum"]
[[ml-get-calendar-event]]
= Get scheduled events API
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<titleabbrev>Get scheduled events</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves information about the scheduled events in calendars.

[[ml-get-calendar-event-request]]
== {api-request-title}

`GET _ml/calendars/<calendar_id>/events` +

`GET _ml/calendars/_all/events`

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

Requires the `monitor_ml` cluster privilege. This privilege is included in the 
`machine_learning_user` built-in role.

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

You can get scheduled event information for multiple calendars in a single
API request by using a comma-separated list of ids or a wildcard expression.
You can get scheduled event information for all calendars by using `_all`,
by specifying `*` as the `<calendar_id>`, or by omitting the `<calendar_id>`.

For more information, see
{ml-docs}/ml-ad-finding-anomalies.html#ml-ad-calendars[Calendars and scheduled events].

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

`<calendar_id>`::
(Required, string)
include::{es-repo-dir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=calendar-id]

[[ml-get-calendar-event-request-body]]
== {api-request-body-title}

`end`::
    (Optional, string) Specifies to get events with timestamps earlier than this
    time. Defaults to unset, which means results are not
    limited to specific timestamps.

`from`::
    (Optional, integer) Skips the specified number of events. Defaults to `0`.

`size`::
    (Optional, integer) Specifies the maximum number of events to obtain.
    Defaults to `100`.

`start`::
    (Optional, string) Specifies to get events with timestamps after this time.
    Defaults to unset, which means results are not limited to
    specific timestamps.

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

The API returns an array of scheduled event resources, which have the
following properties:

`calendar_id`::
(string)
include::{es-repo-dir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=calendar-id]

`description`::
(string) A description of the scheduled event.

`end_time`::
(date) The timestamp for the end of the scheduled event in milliseconds since
the epoch or ISO 8601 format.

`event_id`::
(string) An automatically-generated identifier for the scheduled event.

`start_time`::
(date) The timestamp for the beginning of the scheduled event in milliseconds
since the epoch or ISO 8601 format.

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

[source,console]
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GET _ml/calendars/planned-outages/events
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// TEST[skip:setup:calendar_outages_addevent]

The API returns the following results:

[source,console-result]
----
{
  "count": 3,
  "events": [
    {
      "description": "event 1",
      "start_time": 1513641600000,
      "end_time": 1513728000000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages",
      "event_id": "LS8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st"
    },
    {
      "description": "event 2",
      "start_time": 1513814400000,
      "end_time": 1513900800000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages",
      "event_id": "Li8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st"
    },
    {
      "description": "event 3",
      "start_time": 1514160000000,
      "end_time": 1514246400000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages",
      "event_id": "Ly8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st"
    }
  ]
}
----
// TESTRESPONSE[s/LS8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st/$body.$_path/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/Li8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st/$body.$_path/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/Ly8LJGEBMTCMA-qz49st/$body.$_path/]