# ML Anomaly Detection jobs gives very low score for absense of events

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-anomaly-detection-jobs-gives-very-low-score-for-absense-of-events/366963>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [September 23, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-anomaly-detection-jobs-gives-very-low-score-for-absense-of-events/366963 "2024-09-23T13:48:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-anomaly-detection-jobs-gives-very-low-score-for-absense-of-events/366963/2 "2024-09-24T07:37:00Z")

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Hello @GlebCA ,

if you are specifically interested in the cases when the event count goes down, you should use `low_count`.

To trigger alerts when the event count drops to 0, it's easiest to [use Kibana alerting and not ML](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/anomaly-on-specific-value-0/290400).

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