The cat tasks operation lists the progress of all tasks currently running on your cluster.
## Example
```
GET _cat/tasks?v
```
## Path and HTTP methods
```
GET _cat/tasks
```
## URL parameters
All cat tasks URL parameters are optional.
In addition to the [common URL parameters]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/rest-api/cat/index#common-url-parameters), you can specify the following parameter:
Parameter | Type | Description
:--- | :--- | :---
nodes | List | A comma-separated list of node IDs or names to limit the returned information. Use `_local` to return information from the node you're connecting to, specify the node name to get information from specific nodes, or keep the parameter empty to get information from all nodes.
parent_task_id | String | Returns tasks with a specified parent task ID (node_id:task_number). Keep empty or set to -1 to return all.
time | Time | Specify the units for time. For example, `5d` or `7h`. For more information, see [Supported units]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/units/).
## Response
```json
action | task_id | parent_task_id | type | start_time | timestamp | running_time | ip | node