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NAME
condor_history - HTCondor Manual
View log of HTCondor jobs completed to date
SYNOPSIS
condor_history [-help ]
condor_history [-name name] [-pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]] [-backwards] [-forwards]
[-constraint expr] [-file filename] [-userlog filename] [-search path] [-dir | -directory] [-local]
[-startd] [-epochs] [-format formatString AttributeName] [-autoformat[:jlhVr,tng] attr1 [attr2 ...]] [-l
| -long | -xml | -json | -jsonl] [-match | -limit number] [-attributes attr1[,attr2...]] [-print-format
file ] [-wide] [-since time_or_jobid ] [-completedsince time_expr] [-scanlimit number] [cluster |
cluster.process | owner]
DESCRIPTION
condor_history displays a summary of all HTCondor jobs listed in the specified history files. If no
history files are specified with the -file option, the local history file as specified in HTCondor's
configuration file ($(SPOOL)/history by default) is read. The default listing summarizes in reverse
chronological order each job on a single line, and contains the following items:
ID The cluster/process id of the job.
OWNER The owner of the job.
SUBMITTED
The month, day, hour, and minute the job was submitted to the queue.
RUN_TIME
Remote wall clock time accumulated by the job to date in days, hours, minutes, and seconds,
given as the job ClassAd attribute RemoteWallClockTime.
ST Completion status of the job (C = completed and X = removed).
COMPLETED
The time the job was completed.
CMD The name of the executable.
If a job ID (in the form of cluster_id or cluster_id.proc_id) or an owner is provided, output will be
restricted to jobs with the specified IDs and/or submitted by the specified owner. The -constraint option
can be used to display jobs that satisfy a specified boolean expression.
OPTIONS
-help Display usage information and exit.
-name name
Query the named condor_schedd daemon. If used with -startd, query the named condor_startd
daemon
-pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]
Use the centralmanagerhostname as the central manager to locate condor_schedd daemons. The
default is the COLLECTOR_HOST, as specified in the configuration.
-backwards
List jobs in reverse chronological order. The job most recently added to the history file is
first. This is the default ordering.
-forwards
List jobs in chronological order. The job most recently added to the history file is last. At
least 4 characters must be given to distinguish this option from the -file and -format options.
-constraint expr
Display jobs that satisfy the expression.
-since jobid or expr
Stop scanning when the given jobid is found or when the expression becomes true.
-completedsince time_expr
Scan until the first job that completed on or before the given unix timestamp. The argument
can be any expression that evaluates to a unix timestamp. This option is equivalent to -since
'CompletionDate<=time_expr'.
-scanlimit Number
Stop scanning when the given number of ads have been read.
-limit Number
Limit the number of jobs displayed to Number. Same option as -match.
-match Number
Limit the number of jobs displayed to Number. Same option as -limit.
-local Read from local history files even if there is a SCHEDD_HOST configured.
-startd
Read from Startd history files rather than Schedd history files. If used with the -name
option, query is sent as a command to the given Startd which must be version 9.0 or later.
-epochs[:d]
Read per job run instance recording also known as job epochs instead of default history file.
The -epochs option may be followed by a colon character for extra functionality:
d Delete job epoch files after finished reading. This option only deletes epoch files store
within JOB_EPOCH_HISTORY_DIR, and can not be used with -match, -limit, or -scanlimit.
-file filename
Use the specified file instead of the default history file.
-userlog filename
Display jobs, with job information coming from a job event log, instead of from the default
history file. A job event log does not contain all of the job information, so some fields in
the normal output of condor_history will be blank.
-search path
Use the specified path to filename and all matching condor time rotated files
filename.YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS instead of the default history file. If used with -dir option then
condor_history will use the provided path as the directory to search for specific pattern
matching history files.
-dir or -directory
Search for files in a sources alternate directory configuration knob to read from instead of
default history file. Note: only applies to -epochs.
-format formatString AttributeName
Display jobs with a custom format. See the condor_q man page -format option for details.
-autoformat[:jlhVr,tng] attr1 [attr2 ...] or -af[:jlhVr,tng] attr1 [attr2 ...]
(output option) Display attribute(s) or expression(s) formatted in a default way according to
attribute types. This option takes an arbitrary number of attribute names as arguments, and
prints out their values, with a space between each value and a newline character after the last
value. It is like the -format option without format strings.
It is assumed that no attribute names begin with a dash character, so that the next word that
begins with dash is the start of the next option. The autoformat option may be followed by a
colon character and formatting qualifiers to deviate the output formatting from the default:
j print the job ID as the first field,
l label each field,
h print column headings before the first line of output,
V use %V rather than %v for formatting (string values are quoted),
r print "raw", or unevaluated values,
, add a comma character after each field,
t add a tab character before each field instead of the default space character,
n add a newline character after each field,
g add a newline character between ClassAds, and suppress spaces before each field.
Use -af:h to get tabular values with headings.
Use -af:lrng to get -long equivalent format.
The newline and comma characters may not be used together. The l and h characters may not be
used together.
-print-format file
Read output formatting information from the given custom print format file. see Print Formats
for more information about custom print format files.
-l or -long
Display job ClassAds in long format.
-attributes attrs
Display only the given attributes when the -long o ption is used.
-xml Display job ClassAds in XML format. The XML format is fully defined in the reference manual,
obtained from the ClassAds web page, with a link at http://htcondor.org/classad/classad.html.
-json Display job ClassAds in JSON format.
-jsonl Display job ClassAds in JSON-Lines format: one job ad per line.
-wide[:number]
Restrict output to the given column width. Default width is 80 columns, if -wide is used
without the optional number argument, the width of the output is not restricted.
EXIT STATUS
condor_history will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) upon success, and it will exit with the value 1
(one) upon failure.
AUTHOR
HTCondor Team
COPYRIGHT
1990-2024, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Jun 20, 2025 CONDOR_HISTORY(1)