The current status of a task resource can be determined by looking at the Tasks/status property.
GET api/v1/clusters/c1/requests/2/tasks/12?fields=Tasks/status 200 OK { "href" : "your.ambari.server/api/v1/clusters/c1/requests/2/tasks/12?fields=Tasks/status", "Tasks" : { "cluster_name" : "c1", "id" : 12, "request_id" : 2, "status" : "COMPLETED" }
The following table lists the possible values of the task resource Tasks/status.