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Elastic Stack (ELK Stack)

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Tasks API

The tasks API from Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) — 4 operation(s) for tasks.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Tasks API is one of 132 APIs that Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Task. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.

Requests are made against the base URL https://{elasticsearch_endpoint}.

4 operations 4 paths 20 schemas 2 GET2 POST

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
Base URL
https://{elasticsearch_endpoint}
License
Apache 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 4

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

tasks 4
POST
/_tasks/_cancel
Cancel a task
tasks-cancel 4 params → 200
POST
/_tasks/{task_id}/_cancel
Cancel a task
tasks-cancel-1 5 params → 200
GET
/_tasks/{task_id}
Get task information
tasks-get 3 params → 200
GET
/_tasks
Get all tasks
tasks-list 7 params → 200

Schemas 20

The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are tasks._types.TaskInfo (16 properties), tasks._types.NodeTasks (7 properties), _types.ErrorCause (6 properties), tasks._types.TaskListResponseBase (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

tasks._types.TaskInfos
_types.NodeId
string
_types.Id
string
_types.UnitNanos
number
Time unit for nanoseconds
_types.Duration
A duration. Units can be nanos, micros, ms (milliseconds), s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours) and d (days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indica…
tasks._types.GroupBy
string
_types.TransportAddress
string
_types.DurationValueUnitNanos
tasks._types.TaskInfo
object
16 properties 8 required
_types.TaskId
string
_types.EpochTimeUnitMillis
_types.NodeIds
tasks._types.TaskListResponseBase
object
4 properties
tasks._types.NodeTasks
object
7 properties 1 required
tasks._types.ParentTaskInfo
_types.Ip
string
_types.Host
string
_types.ErrorCause
object
Cause and details about a request failure. This class defines the properties common to all error types. Additional details are also provided, that depend on th…
6 properties 1 required
_types.UnitMillis
number
Time unit for milliseconds
_types.TaskFailure
object
4 properties 4 required

Specification

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Source

elk-stack-tasks-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
elk-stack:elk-stack-tasks-api
Base URL
https://{elasticsearch_endpoint}
Docs
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/
Provider
Elastic Stack (ELK Stack)
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