Add events to calendar API

Posts scheduled events in a calendar.

Request

POST _ml/calendars/<calendar_id>/events

Prerequisites

• If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have manage_ml or manage cluster privileges to use this API. See Security privileges and Machine learning security privileges.

Description

This API accepts a list of scheduled events, each of which must have a start time, end time, and description.

Path parameters

<calendar_id>

(Required, string) A string that uniquely identifies a calendar.

Request body

events

(Required, array) A list of one of more scheduled events. The event’s start and end times may be specified as integer milliseconds since the epoch or as a string in ISO 8601 format.

Properties of events

• description

  (Optional, string) A description of the scheduled event.

  end_time

  (Required, date) The timestamp for the end of the scheduled event in milliseconds since the epoch or ISO 8601 format.

  start_time

  (Required, date) The timestamp for the beginning of the scheduled event in milliseconds since the epoch or ISO 8601 format.

Examples

POST _ml/calendars/planned-outages/events
{
  "events" : [
    {"description": "event 1", "start_time": 1513641600000, "end_time": 1513728000000},
    {"description": "event 2", "start_time": 1513814400000, "end_time": 1513900800000},
    {"description": "event 3", "start_time": 1514160000000, "end_time": 1514246400000}
  ]
}

The API returns the following results:

{
  "events": [
    {
      "description": "event 1",
      "start_time": 1513641600000,
      "end_time": 1513728000000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages"
    },
    {
      "description": "event 2",
      "start_time": 1513814400000,
      "end_time": 1513900800000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages"
    },
    {
      "description": "event 3",
      "start_time": 1514160000000,
      "end_time": 1514246400000,
      "calendar_id": "planned-outages"
    }
  ]
}