Elastic ML job types
When we start using the Elastic ML UI to configure anomaly detection jobs, we will see that there are five different job wizards that are shown:
Figure 3.1 – The Create job UI showing different configuration wizards
The existence of these different configuration wizards implies that there are different "types" of jobs. In actuality, there is really only one job type—it is just that the anomaly detection job has many options, and many of these wizards make certain aspects of that configuration easier. Everything that you may desire to configure can be done via the Advanced wizard (or the API). In fact, when Elastic ML was first released as beta in v5.4, that was all that existed. Since then, the other wizards have been added for simplicity and usability in specific use cases.
An anomaly detection job has many configuration settings, but the two most important ones are the analysis configuration and the datafeed...
