# Do X-Pack ML Capabilities Only Include Temporal Data?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-x-pack-ml-capabilities-only-include-temporal-data/112309>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-x-pack-ml-capabilities-only-include-temporal-data/112309 "2017-12-18T21:05:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jturner900](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jturner900](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jturner900)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-x-pack-ml-capabilities-only-include-temporal-data/112309/1 "2017-12-18T21:05:38Z")

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I've only seen time series data in tutorials...

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**Author:** ![Hendrik\_Muhs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hendrik_muhs/32/25802_2.png) [@Hendrik\_Muhs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hendrik_Muhs)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-x-pack-ml-capabilities-only-include-temporal-data/112309/2 "2017-12-19T10:49:17Z")

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That's correct the X-Pack ML plugin provides anomaly detection, data analysis and forecast on time series data.

Machine Learning on non time series data might come in the future, hence the name.

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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:** [January 16, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-x-pack-ml-capabilities-only-include-temporal-data/112309/3 "2018-01-16T10:49:18Z")

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