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CAT tasks

Introduced 1.0

The CAT tasks operation lists the progress of all tasks currently running on your cluster.

Path and HTTP methods

GET _cat/tasks

Query parameters

Parameter Type Description
nodes List A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned information. Use _local to return information from the node you’re connecting to, specify the node name to get information from specific nodes, or keep the parameter empty to get information from all nodes.
detailed Boolean Returns detailed task information. (Default: false)
parent_task_id String Returns tasks with a specified parent task ID (node_id:task_number). Keep empty or set to -1 to return all.
time Time Specify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units.

Example request

The following example request lists all tasks in progress:

GET _cat/tasks?v

Example response

action | task_id | parent_task_id | type | start_time | timestamp | running_time | ip | node
cluster:monitor/tasks/lists | 1vo54NuxSxOrbPEYdkSF0w:168062 | - | transport | 1624337809471 | 04:56:49 | 489.5ms | 172.18.0.4 | odfe-node1     
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