Elastic Stack

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) task manager API

Task manager APIs enable you to check the health of the Kibana task manager, which is used by features such as alerting, actions, and reporting to run mission critical work as persistent background tasks.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 1

Each operation below carries the questions people ask an LLM about it and the instructions they give an agent to run it. Generated by API Evangelist overlay

GET /api/task_manager/_health Check Kibana task manager health · Get the task manager health #
Ask an LLM
“Is the Kibana task manager healthy and keeping up with its workload?”
“Can I see task manager runtime and capacity stats to diagnose slow background jobs?”
Tell an agent
Check the health of the task manager.
Report task manager status and capacity.

Documentation

📖
Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch
📖
APIReference
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/
📖
Documentation
https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana
📖
APIReference
https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/kibana/

Specifications

⚙
OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elk-stack/refs/heads/main/openapi/elk-stack-task-manager-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

🔗
SourceCode
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification
🔗
SourceCode
https://github.com/elastic/kibana
🔗
ToolCrosswalk
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elk-stack/refs/heads/main/mcp/elk-stack-tool-crosswalk.yml

Work with this as data

Every API here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for apis

7 MCP tools reach this
  • find_apisBrowse and filter every API in the catalog.
  • get_api_artifactsOne API's artifacts, grouped by type.
  • get_openapiThe primary OpenAPI for this API.
  • find_similar_apisAPIs that look like this one.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
This API 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/apis/elk-stack:elk-stack-task-manager-api"
All apis 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/apis?limit=25"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.

OpenAPI Specification

elk-stack-task-manager-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    name: Kibana Team
  description: The Kibana REST APIs enable you to manage resources such as connectors, data views, and saved objects.
  title: Kibana task manager API
  version: ''
  x-doc-license:
    name: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
  x-feedbackLink:
    label: Feedback
    url: https://github.com/elastic/docs-content/issues/new?assignees=&labels=feedback%2Ccommunity&projects=&template=api-feedback.yaml&title=%5BFeedback%5D%3A+
servers:
- url: https://{kibana_url}
  variables:
    kibana_url:
      default: localhost:5601
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
- basicAuth: []
tags:


# --- truncated at 32 KB (37 KB total) ---
# Full source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elk-stack/refs/heads/main/openapi/elk-stack-task-manager-api-openapi.yml