---
title: "Schedule the Privilege Monitoring Engine"
method: POST
path: "/api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/schedule_now"
tags: ["Security Entity Analytics API"]
---

# Schedule the Privilege Monitoring Engine

`POST /api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/schedule_now`

**Spaces method and path for this operation:**

<div><span class="operation-verb post">post</span>&nbsp;<span class="operation-path">/s/{space_id}/api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/schedule_now</span></div>

Refer to [Spaces](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/manage-spaces) for more information.

Schedules the Privilege Monitoring Engine to run as soon as possible, triggering an immediate monitoring cycle.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- object
  - `success` boolean — Indicates the scheduling was successful

## Other responses

- `409` — Conflict - Monitoring engine is already running

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