CAT pending tasks

Introduced 1.0

The CAT pending tasks operation lists the progress of all pending tasks, including task priority and time in queue.

Path and HTTP methods

  1. GET _cat/pending_tasks

URL parameters

All CAT nodes URL parameters are optional.

In addition to the common URL parameters, you can specify the following parameters:

ParameterTypeDescription
localBooleanWhether to return information from the local node only instead of from the cluster manager node. Default is false.
cluster_manager_timeoutTimeThe amount of time to wait for a connection to the cluster manager node. Default is 30 seconds.
timeTimeSpecify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units.

Example request

The following example request lists the progress of all pending node tasks:

  1. GET _cat/pending_tasks?v

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Example response

  1. insertOrder | timeInQueue | priority | source
  2.   1786      |    1.8s     |  URGENT  | shard-started