# Differences console and UI in ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361 "2018-06-26T05:07:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![soodabehzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@soodabehzz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soodabehzz)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361/1 "2018-06-26T05:07:40Z")

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Hi everyone  
I use kibana with elasticsearch, now I am learning the ML part.  
Is it possible help me know, there is any different between creating job by UI compared to console, I think the console has more feature and if the answer is yes, where I can find some example?  
I couldn't find any proper example to learn.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![dkyle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dkyle/32/59114_2.png) [@dkyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkyle)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361/2 "2018-06-26T08:34:25Z")

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Hi,

Yes you can use the Machine Learning APIs in console the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-apis.html) is a good place to start.

The APIs are useful if you want to automate the creation of jobs or stopping/starting datafeeds. If you are getting started with Machine Learning I would stick to the UI it has all the features you need.

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**Author:** ![soodabehzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@soodabehzz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soodabehzz)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361/3 "2018-06-26T08:43:20Z")

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Thanks for ur reply.  
so you say there isn't any different between UI and ML API?  
and another question  
I got an error when I want to start a datafeed, as beloww:  
"datafeed [datafeed-total-requests] cannot retrieve field [timestamp] because it has no mappings"  
I create and start datafeed by below code:

```
PUT _xpack/ml/datafeeds/datafeed-total-requests
{
  "job_id": "total-requests",
  "query": {
      "match_all": {}
    },
    "indices": [
      "server-*"
    ],
    "types": []
}

 `POST _xpack/ml/datafeeds/datafeed-total-requests/_start

```

My job is open and the "server-\*" index has stored in elasticsearch before.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/differences-console-and-ui-in-elk/137361/4 "2018-07-24T08:43:29Z")

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