Evaluate ranked search results Generally available; Added in 6.2.0

POST /_rank_eval
Api key auth Basic auth Bearer auth

Evaluate the quality of ranked search results over a set of typical search queries.

Required authorization

  • Index privileges: read

Query parameters

  • allow_no_indices boolean

    If false, the request returns an error if any wildcard expression, index alias, or _all value targets only missing or closed indices. This behavior applies even if the request targets other open indices. For example, a request targeting foo*,bar* returns an error if an index starts with foo but no index starts with bar.

  • expand_wildcards string | array[string]

    Whether to expand wildcard expression to concrete indices that are open, closed or both.

    Values are all, open, closed, hidden, or none.

  • ignore_unavailable boolean

    If true, missing or closed indices are not included in the response.

  • search_type string

    Search operation type

application/json

Body Required

  • requests array[object] Required

    A set of typical search requests, together with their provided ratings.

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    • id string Required
    • request object
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    • ratings array[object] Required

      List of document ratings

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      • _id string Required
      • _index string Required
      • rating number Required

        The document’s relevance with regard to this search request.

    • template_id string
    • params object

      The search template parameters.

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      • * object Additional properties
  • metric object
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    • precision object
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      • k number

        Sets the maximum number of documents retrieved per query. This value will act in place of the usual size parameter in the query.

      • relevant_rating_threshold number

        Sets the rating threshold above which documents are considered to be "relevant".

      • ignore_unlabeled boolean

        Controls how unlabeled documents in the search results are counted. If set to true, unlabeled documents are ignored and neither count as relevant or irrelevant. Set to false (the default), they are treated as irrelevant.

    • recall object
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      • k number

        Sets the maximum number of documents retrieved per query. This value will act in place of the usual size parameter in the query.

      • relevant_rating_threshold number

        Sets the rating threshold above which documents are considered to be "relevant".

    • mean_reciprocal_rank object
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      • k number

        Sets the maximum number of documents retrieved per query. This value will act in place of the usual size parameter in the query.

      • relevant_rating_threshold number

        Sets the rating threshold above which documents are considered to be "relevant".

    • dcg object
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      • k number

        Sets the maximum number of documents retrieved per query. This value will act in place of the usual size parameter in the query.

      • normalize boolean

        If set to true, this metric will calculate the Normalized DCG.

    • expected_reciprocal_rank object
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      • k number

        Sets the maximum number of documents retrieved per query. This value will act in place of the usual size parameter in the query.

      • maximum_relevance number Required

        The highest relevance grade used in the user-supplied relevance judgments.

Responses

  • 200 application/json
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    • metric_score number Required

      The overall evaluation quality calculated by the defined metric

    • details object Required

      The details section contains one entry for every query in the original requests section, keyed by the search request id

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      • * object Additional properties
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        • metric_score number Required

          The metric_score in the details section shows the contribution of this query to the global quality metric score

        • unrated_docs array[object] Required

          The unrated_docs section contains an _index and _id entry for each document in the search result for this query that didn’t have a ratings value. This can be used to ask the user to supply ratings for these documents

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        • hits array[object] Required

          The hits section shows a grouping of the search results with their supplied ratings

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        • metric_details object Required

          The metric_details give additional information about the calculated quality metric (e.g. how many of the retrieved documents were relevant). The content varies for each metric but allows for better interpretation of the results

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    • failures object Required
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POST /_rank_eval 
GET /my-index-000001/_rank_eval
{
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "JFK query",
      "request": { "query": { "match_all": {} } },
      "ratings": []
    } ],
  "metric": {
    "precision": {
      "k": 20,
      "relevant_rating_threshold": 1,
      "ignore_unlabeled": false
    }
  }
}
curl \
 --request POST 'http://api.example.com/_rank_eval' \
 --header "Authorization: $API_KEY" \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data '"{\n  \"requests\": [\n    {\n      \"id\": \"JFK query\",\n      \"request\": { \"query\": { \"match_all\": {} } },\n      \"ratings\": []\n    } ],\n  \"metric\": {\n    \"precision\": {\n      \"k\": 20,\n      \"relevant_rating_threshold\": 1,\n      \"ignore_unlabeled\": false\n    }\n  }\n}"'
Request example
An example body for a `GET /my-index-000001/_rank_eval` request. 
{
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "JFK query",
      "request": { "query": { "match_all": {} } },
      "ratings": []
    } ],
  "metric": {
    "precision": {
      "k": 20,
      "relevant_rating_threshold": 1,
      "ignore_unlabeled": false
    }
  }
}