# ML newbie - where are results stored and for how long **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\ **Created:** [December 2, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184 "2019-12-02T12:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stefws](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stefws/32/6442_2.png) [@stefws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stefws)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/1 "2019-12-02T12:48:32Z")
Are initially playing a bit with ML and wondering about where and for how long ML processing results are stored and how to maintain such data. Eg. got a ML job which seems to indicate anormalities prior to existing data as data are removed by index management. How to like-wise maintain ML results? ![03](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/d/8d253463f34594ad93031f60aad20525b85a1834.png) ---
**Author:** ![edsavage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c67d28/32.png) [@edsavage](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/edsavage)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/2 "2019-12-02T16:47:10Z")
Hi Steffen, thanks for playing with our ML product. We hope you're enjoying it so far. The results are stored in a special "system" index. By default this index is called `.ml-anomalies-shared`. You can view this index from the management console but you will need to `Include system indices` to view them: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/c/5cfb260535d10b52b05a5a82d28bcb878631afe9.png) You can get some brief information about your results by clicking on the index name and then clicking on the `Summary` tab. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/6/868e38706a983a08e0765c413246ae7c70bb931d.png) more detailed information can be found by exploring the other tabs. How long the results are stored is configurable. Full details are in the documentation [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-job-resource.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-job-resource.html). The relevant setting is `results_retention_days` (long) Advanced configuration option. The number of days for which job results are retained. Once per day at 00:30 (server time), results older than this period are deleted from Elasticsearch. The default value is null, which means results are retained. Hope this helps & happy festive season! Ed ---
**Author:** ![stefws](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stefws/32/6442_2.png) [@stefws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stefws)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/3 "2019-12-03T07:03:30Z")
Thanks for your reply! Could the advanced settings be edited for an existing job? I only found it possible to do this by cloning an existing job and then adding a setting in the 'Edit JSON' tab ---
**Author:** ![edsavage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c67d28/32.png) [@edsavage](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/edsavage)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/4 "2019-12-03T09:57:15Z")
Morning Steffen, Cloning the job in order to reconfigure is indeed a valid approach but is inconvenient for long running or real time jobs. We do offer a REST API that allows updating the configuration of certain parameters and luckily `results_retention_days` is on that list [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-job.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-update-job.html) You can use the `Dev Tools` console to interact with the REST API ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/c/7c3c473158c9fecb81acf57e2d5e3c7fc830cc10.png) or, if you prefer you can always use 3rd party utilities such as `curl`, `postman` etc. Hope that helps, Cheers, Ed ---
**Author:** ![stefws](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stefws/32/6442_2.png) [@stefws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stefws)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/5 "2019-12-06T09:41:52Z")
@edsavage Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![edsavage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c67d28/32.png) [@edsavage](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/edsavage)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/6 "2019-12-06T09:44:02Z")
np 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-newbie-where-are-results-stored-and-for-how-long/210184/7 "2020-01-03T09:44:02Z")
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