# Check status/progress of long running ElasticSearch queries?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-status-progress-of-long-running-elasticsearch-queries/129441>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 25, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-status-progress-of-long-running-elasticsearch-queries/129441 "2018-04-25T09:25:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![davout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@davout](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davout)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-status-progress-of-long-running-elasticsearch-queries/129441/1 "2018-04-25T09:25:18Z")

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I'm an ElasticSearch newbie, and assessing this tech for possible use on a very large database search requirement.

It is highly likely that some of the searches on this database will have a long query elapsed time. I was wondering whether ElasticSearch has any query status/progress checking available on a query that is in progress?

LIke...

- Is query still in progress?
- Reporting the process stage the query is at?
- Query start time and elapsed time so far.

Conversely can a timeout be set for a query, and can a query be cancelled after it has started?

TIA

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-status-progress-of-long-running-elasticsearch-queries/129441/2 "2018-04-25T10:08:49Z")

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Normally a query in elasticsearch should be fast.

But if it's getting too much time you can look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/tasks.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/tasks.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-status-progress-of-long-running-elasticsearch-queries/129441/3 "2018-05-23T10:16:10Z")

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