Now that we have run a forecast, we can look in more depth at the results that are generated by the forecasting process. By the way, we can view the results of a previously created forecast at any time in the UI via one of two methods. You can click the Forecast button in the Single Metric Viewer to reveal a list of Previous Forecasts, like so:
![](https://static.packt-cdn.com/products/9781788477543/graphics/assets/ff3ef66b-f485-492c-b717-738b71c7477b.png)
Alternatively, you can view them in the Job Management page under the Forecasts tab for that job:
![](https://static.packt-cdn.com/products/9781788477543/graphics/assets/1fb64274-c868-4122-9ff2-1b2522e589c0.png)
Forecast results built in Kibana have a default lifespan of 14 days. After that, the forecast results are deleted permanently. If a different expiration duration is desired, then the forecast will have to be invoked via the _forecast API endpoint, which will be discussed later, but is documented at https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-forecast.html.
In either case, clicking on the View icon...