Monitoring and Accounting

Once a job is running, the next question is usually where it is, how much time it has left, and whether it finished the way you expected. Slurm gives you a few commands that cover most of that day-to-day checking.

Cluster status

See what partitions and nodes are available with:

sinfo

Active jobs

Check your own jobs with:

squeue -u $USER

That is usually the first command to run when something seems delayed or when you want to confirm which node your allocation landed on.

Completed jobs

List completed jobs for your account with:

sacct -u $USER

To focus on one job:

sacct -j <jobid>

If you want a more detailed accounting line, use:

sacct -j <jobid> --format=JobID,JobName,Account,Partition,QOS,State,Elapsed,AllocTRES,ExitCode

Job inspection

For a scheduler-level summary of a job, this command is usually the most useful:

scontrol show job <jobid>