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

Query 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

copy

Example response

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