How to get status of _delete_by_query api in elasticsearch using scala

Question

I am doing an HTTP post to elasticsearch in scala.

 Http(s\"http://$elkIp:5051/$indexName/_delete_by_query\")
          .postData(s\"\"\"{   \"query\": { \"term         


        

Answer 1

What you need to do is to add ?wait_for_completion=false to your request and you'll get the <task_id> in the response immediately.

You can then regularly check the task status by hitting /_tasks/<task_id>. As soon as completed: true returns, then you know the task has finished executing.

You need to also make sure to delete .tasks/task/<task_id> when your job is done otherwise it will stay in the task index.