Jobs

Cancel a job

POST/jobs/{id}/actions/cancel
jobs:writecancel_jobIdempotent

Moves a queued or running job to cancelled and returns it. A running job stops at its next item; the items it had already finished stay done, and its result reports them. Cancelling a cancelled job returns it unchanged. A job that has succeeded or failed returns 409 invalid_state. Jobs from the operations that still answer { "jobId" }, document generation and ingestion, run to the end and return 409 conflict. Emits no webhook, and can't be undone.

Path parameters

  • idstring (uuid)Required#

    The record's id.

Query parameters

  • dry_runboolean#

    Validate and run the call without committing it, returning what the real call would return with meta.dry_run set.

Headers

  • Idempotency-Keystring#

    Makes a retry safe. Send a new UUID for each new request and reuse it only to retry that request; the first response is replayed for 24 hours.

Responses

200

The cancelled job.

Job
{
  "data": {
    "id": "9a9d1c5e-4f2b-4c8e-9a7d-2f1e6b3c4d5a",
    "type": "string",
    "status": "queued",
    "progress": {
      "done": 1,
      "total": 1
    },
    "result": {},
    "error": {},
    "created_at": "2026-06-12T10:00:00+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2026-06-12T10:00:00+00:00",
    "completed_at": "2026-06-12T10:00:00+00:00"
  }
}
401

Authentication failed. error.code is one of invalid_token, expired, revoked.

Error
403

Authorization failed. error.code is one of org_disabled, ip_blocked, missing_scope, scope_disabled, user_disabled.

Error
404

Resource not found (error.code = not_found).

Error
409

The request conflicts with existing state (error.code = conflict), e.g. a compliance flow with the requested name already exists.

Error
422

The request can't be processed (HTTP 422): validation_failed with one ErrorDetail per problem, or a code documented on the operation.

Error
429

Rate limit exceeded (error.code = rate_limited).

Error

Examples

curl -X POST https://your-org-domain/kong/core/api/v2/jobs/{id}/actions/cancel\
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HELM_API_KEY"\
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"