---
title: stack es tasks cancel cli command
description: Cancel a task. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4075/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/es/tasks/cancel
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack es tasks cancel cli command
<cli-modifiers>
</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es tasks cancel [options]
```

Cancel a task.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--actions string">
    A comma-separated list or wildcard expression of actions that is used to limit the request.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--actions` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--nodes string[]">
    A comma-separated list of node IDs or names that is used to limit the request.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--nodes` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--parent-task-id string">
    A parent task ID that is used to limit the tasks.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--wait-for-completion">
    If true, the request blocks until all found tasks are complete.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--task-id string">
    The task identifier.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--error-trace">
    When set to `true` Elasticsearch will include the full stack trace of errors
    when they occur.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--filter-path string">
    Comma-separated list of filters in dot notation which reduce the response
    returned by Elasticsearch.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--filter-path` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--human">
    When set to `true` will return statistics in a format suitable for humans.
    For example `"exists_time": "1h"` for humans and
    `"exists_time_in_millis": 3600000` for computers. When disabled the human
    readable values will be omitted. This makes sense for responses being consumed
    only by machines.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--pretty">
    If set to `true` the returned JSON will be "pretty-formatted". Only use
    this option for debugging only.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>