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Job Scheduler Jobs API

Introduced 3.2

The Jobs API allows you to view all Job Scheduler jobs.

Endpoints

GET /_plugins/_job_scheduler/api/jobs

Query parameters

The following table lists the available query parameters. All query parameters are optional.

Parameter Data type Description
by_node Boolean Returns the jobs grouped by the node on which they are running. Default is false.

Example request

GET /_plugins/_job_scheduler/api/jobs

Example response

{
  "jobs": [
    {
      "job_type": "reports-scheduler",
      "job_id": "Cuu8Z5gBTcOdmakPQ51t",
      "index_name": ".opendistro-reports-definitions",
      "name": "index_report",
      "descheduled": false,
      "enabled": true,
      "enabled_time": "2025-08-01T22:24:08.044Z",
      "last_update_time": "2025-08-01T22:24:08.044Z",
      "last_execution_time": "none",
      "last_expected_execution_time": "none",
      "next_expected_execution_time": "2025-08-04T02:15:00.000Z",
      "schedule": {
        "type": "cron",
        "expression": "15 2 1,15 * 1",
        "timezone": "Africa/Abidjan",
        "delay": "none"
      },
      "lock_duration": "no_lock",
      "jitter": "none"
    },
    {
      "job_type": "scheduler_sample_extension",
      "job_id": "jobid1",
      "index_name": ".scheduler_sample_extension",
      "name": "sample-job-it",
      "descheduled": false,
      "enabled": true,
      "enabled_time": "1970-07-23T00:27:45.353Z",
      "last_update_time": "1970-07-23T00:27:45.353Z",
      "last_execution_time": "2025-08-01T22:28:45.357484385Z",
      "last_expected_execution_time": "2025-08-01T22:28:45.353111804Z",
      "next_expected_execution_time": "2025-08-01T22:29:45.353111804Z",
      "schedule": {
        "type": "interval",
        "start_time": "1970-07-23T00:27:45.353Z",
        "interval": 1,
        "unit": "Minutes",
        "delay": "none"
      },
      "lock_duration": 10,
      "jitter": "none"
    }
  ],
  "failures": [],
  "total_jobs": 2
}

Response body fields

The following table lists all response body fields.

Field Data type Description
jobs Array Contains all jobs reported by the Job Scheduler.
job_type String The plugin that scheduled the job.
job_id String The unique identifier of the job.
index_name String The index in which the job information is stored.
name String The job name. The name is not necessarily unique.
descheduled Boolean Indicates whether the job is scheduled to be executed (false) or is not scheduled (true) by the Job Scheduler.
enabled Boolean Indicates whether the job is active (true) or inactive (false), as defined by the plugin using the Job Scheduler.
enabled_time String The time at which the job was originally scheduled.
last_update_time String The time at which the job was last updated.
last_expected_exection_time String The time at which the job was most recently executed.
next_expected_execution_time String The time at which the job is expected to be executed next.
schedule Map The job’s execution schedule. Can define a Cron or interval schedule.
schedule.type String The schedule type. Valid values are cron and interval.
lock_duration Integer The maximum amount of time (in seconds) that a job can remain locked during execution.
jitter Double A random delay applied to job execution times to prevent simultaneous runs across the system.
failures Array A list of nodes that failed to report jobs.
total_jobs Integer The total number of jobs reported across all nodes.

Interval schedule

The interval schedule supports the following fields.

Field Data type Description
start_time String The schedule start time.
interval Integer The numeric interval duration between job executions (for example, 10).
unit String The interval units (for example, Minutes, Hours, or Days).
delay String A fixed amount of time applied to the job before execution.

Cron schedule

The cron schedule supports the following fields.

Field Data type Description
expression String A Cron expression defining the schedule.
timezone String The time zone associated with the Cron schedule.
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