[role="xpack"]
[[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}

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

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

`<calendar_id>`::
(Required, string)
include::{es-ref-dir}/ml/ml-shared.asciidoc[tag=calendar-id]
+
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` or `*`
as the calendar identifier.

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

`end`::
  (Optional, string) Specifies to get events with timestamps earlier than this
  time.

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

`job_id`::
  (Optional, string) Specifies to get events for a specific {anomaly-job}
  identifier or job group. It must be used with a calendar identifier of `_all`
  or `*`.

`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.

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

You can also specify the query parameters in the request body; the exception are
`from` and `size`, use `page` instead:

`page`::
+
.Properties of `page`
[%collapsible%open]
====

`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`.
====


[[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-ref-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]
--------------------------------------------------
GET _ml/calendars/planned-outages/events
--------------------------------------------------
// 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/]

The following example retrieves scheduled events that occur within a specific
period of time:

[source,console]
--------------------------------------------------
GET _ml/calendars/planned-outages/events?start=1635638400000&end=1635724800000
--------------------------------------------------
// TEST[skip:setup:calendar_outages_addevent]