How to check if runner is currently running a job using jobs API - gitlab-ci-runner

Question

I would like to check which runners are currently running jobs but i fail to find anything that would give me this information using API.
I know which ones are active and can take jobs but not the ones that are actually running them at the current time.
So my question is, how can i determine which runners are currently processing a job

Answer 1

You can list all the runners, get theirs ids and then for each runner check if there are jobs with status running:
List all runners API using /runners/all
List Runner jobs using /runners/$runner_id/jobs?status=running
The following bash script uses curl and jq :
#!/bin/bash
token=YOUR_TOKEN
domain=your.domain.com
ids=$(curl -s -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $token" "https://$domain/api/v4/runners/all" | \
jq '.[].id')
set -- $ids
for i
do
result=$(curl -s \
-H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $token" \
"https://$domain/api/v4/runners/$i/jobs?status=running" | jq '. | length')
if [ $result -eq 0 ]; then
echo "runner $i is not running jobs"
else
echo "runner $i is running $result jobs"
fi
done
Output:
runner 6 is not running jobs
runner 7 is running 1 jobs
runner 8 is not running jobs
Using python :
import requests
import json
token = "YOUR_TOKEN"
domain = "your.domain.com"
r = requests.get(
f'https://{domain}/api/v4/runners/all',
headers = { "PRIVATE-TOKEN": token }
)
ids = [ i["id"] for i in json.loads(r.text) ]
for i in ids:
r = requests.get(
f'https://{domain}/api/v4/runners/{i}/jobs?status=running',
headers = { "PRIVATE-TOKEN": token }
)
num_jobs = len(json.loads(r.text))
if num_jobs > 0:
print(f'runner {i} is running {num_jobs} jobs')
else:
print(f'runner {i} is not running jobs')