Elasticsearch Task Management

This is how you should search for a running task kill it if you need

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Open Dev Tools in Kibana and run this, will give you a detail list of all the tasks.

GET _tasks?detailed

Output

"kW1_b9QcSH-pbwZsCV3YAg:1209117" : {
"node" : "kW1_b9QcSH-pbwZsCV3YAg",
"id" : 1209117,
"type" : "persistent",
"action" : "xpack/rollup/job[c]",
"status" : {
"job_state" : "started",
"upgraded_doc_id" : true
},
"description" : "rollup_axp-support-rollup-uniq-user-perhour",
"start_time_in_millis" : 1626690188840,
"running_time_in_nanos" : 66405727473010,
"cancellable" : true,
"parent_task_id" : "cluster:1694",
"headers" : { }
}

Following line show you the status of the task

"job_state" : "started",

If you wan to kill cancel the task get the task id from the output, in my case id is “kW1_b9QcSH-pbwZsCV3YAg:1209117”

POST _tasks/kW1_b9QcSH-pbwZsCV3YAg:1209117/_cancel