Elasticsearch: Add request or index details in Task Management API
Describe the feature:
It would be nice to see the original request or details about affected indexes In the output of _tasks.
E.g. GET /_tasks?detailed=true&actions=*reindex&pretty provides no information about what it's working on, making it hard to know which task corresponds to which reindexing job currently running.
cwurm
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@imotov is this similar to what you're doing in https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/21740 ?
clintongormley
on 24 Nov 2016
@clintongormley yes, it's pretty much the same only for a different set of requests.
imotov
on 24 Nov 2016
@cwurm adding a task description is relatively simple process for a single request, however we have close to 100 different requests and it's not really possible (or useful) to add task descriptions to all of them at the same time. I have opened PR for reindex, update-by-query and delete-by-query commands. If you can think of other tasks for which you would like to prioritize adding proper descriptions, please list them on this issue.
imotov
on 28 Nov 2016
@imotov The one other I can think of is snapshot/restore. However I didn't check if that one already has an informative description.
cwurm
on 1 Dec 2016
@cwurm They don't. I just opened #21901 to fix that. I am also planning to add a description to bulk request next. I think that should cover most of the users' needs.
imotov
on 1 Dec 2016
Closing as the issue description is too broad to be actionable (doesn't mean it isn't valid). Some of it has been picked up already.
bleskes
on 20 Mar 2018
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@cwurm adding a task description is relatively simple process for a single request, however we have close to 100 different requests and it's not really possible (or useful) to add task descriptions to all of them at the same time. I have opened PR for reindex, update-by-query and delete-by-query commands. If you can think of other tasks for which you would like to prioritize adding proper descriptions, please list them on this issue.