Find long-running {{esql}} queries [esql-task-management]

You can list running {{esql}} queries with the task management APIs:

$$$esql-task-management-get-all$$$

console

GET /_tasks?pretty&detailed&group_by=parents&human&actions=*data/read/esql

Which returns a list of statuses like this:

{
  "node" : "2j8UKw1bRO283PMwDugNNg",
  "id" : 5326,
  "type" : "transport",
  "action" : "indices:data/read/esql",
  "description" : "FROM test | STATS MAX(d) by a, b",  <1>
  "start_time" : "2023-07-31T15:46:32.328Z",
  "start_time_in_millis" : 1690818392328,
  "running_time" : "41.7ms",                           <2>
  "running_time_in_nanos" : 41770830,
  "cancellable" : true,
  "cancelled" : false,
  "headers" : { }
}

% NOTCONSOLE

The user submitted query.
Time the query has been running.

You can use this to find long running queries and, if you need to, cancel them with the task cancellation API:

$$$esql-task-management-cancelEsqlQueryRequestTests$$$

console

POST _tasks/2j8UKw1bRO283PMwDugNNg:5326/_cancel

It may take a few seconds for the query to be stopped.