Show scheduled tasks

This API returns information about scheduled tasks.

To use it, you will need to authenticate by providing an access_token for a server admin: see Admin API.

The api is:

GET /_synapse/admin/v1/scheduled_tasks

It returns a JSON body like the following:

{
    "scheduled_tasks": [
        {
            "id": "GSA124oegf1",
            "action": "shutdown_room",
            "status": "complete",
            "timestamp_ms": 23423523,
            "resource_id": "!roomid",
            "result": "some result",
            "error": null
        }
      ]
}

Query parameters:

  • action_name: string - Is optional. Returns only the scheduled tasks with the given action name.

  • resource_id: string - Is optional. Returns only the scheduled tasks with the given resource id.

  • status: string - Is optional. Returns only the scheduled tasks matching the given status, one of

    • "scheduled" - Task is scheduled but not active
    • "active" - Task is active and probably running, and if not will be run on next scheduler loop run
    • "complete" - Task has completed successfully
    • "failed" - Task is over and either returned a failed status, or had an exception

  • max_timestamp: int - Is optional. Returns only the scheduled tasks with a timestamp inferior to the specified one.

Response

The following fields are returned in the JSON response body along with a 200 HTTP status code:

  • id: string - ID of scheduled task.
  • action: string - The name of the scheduled task's action.
  • status: string - The status of the scheduled task.
  • timestamp_ms: integer - The timestamp (in milliseconds since the unix epoch) of the given task - If the status is "scheduled" then this represents when it should be launched. Otherwise it represents the last time this task got a change of state.
  • resource_id: Optional string - The resource id of the scheduled task, if it possesses one
  • result: Optional Json - Any result of the scheduled task, if given
  • error: Optional string - If the task has the status "failed", the error associated with this failure