# Get only selected fields in Anomaly detection jobs API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [June 16, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200 "2020-06-16T01:09:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElasticLiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticliver/32/64869_2.png) [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200/1 "2020-06-16T01:09:56Z")

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Hi, I want to retrieve only the value of "job\_id" when I make this query

```auto
GET _ml/anomaly_detectors/

```

It is posible to use something like "\_source " in the \_search queries to only retrieve the "job\_id"?

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200/2 "2020-06-16T01:51:24Z")

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That is an API call, not a query to an index. The rough equivalent to querying the index to only return job names would be something like:

```auto
GET .ml-config/_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "filter": [
        {
          "term": {
            "job_type": "anomaly_detector"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "_source": "job_id"
}

```

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200/3 "2020-06-16T01:59:43Z")

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If you want to make the API call then something like this might work for you:

`curl localhost:9200/_ml/anomaly_detectors/?pretty | awk -F" : " '/job_id/{print $2}' | sed 's/\",//g' | sed 's/\"//g'`

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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 14, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-only-selected-fields-in-anomaly-detection-jobs-api/237200/4 "2020-07-14T01:59:47Z")

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