sacct
TLDR
Display recent jobs with default fields
$ sacct
Display brief job information$ sacct -b
Display allocations for a specific job$ sacct -j job_id -X
Display custom fields for a job$ sacct -j job_id -o Elapsed,JobName,ReqCPUS,ReqMem
Display jobs from one week ago$ sacct -S $(date -d "1 week ago" +'%F')
Expand field width for long values$ sacct -o JobID,JobName%100
SYNOPSIS
sacct [options]
DESCRIPTION
sacct displays accounting data from the Slurm workload manager. It shows job history including resource usage, state, and exit codes for completed and running jobs.
Output format is highly customizable with many available fields for detailed job analysis.
PARAMETERS
-b, --brief
Display brief job information-j, --jobs id
Show specific job-X, --allocations
Show only allocations-o, --format fields
Custom output format-S, --starttime date
Filter by start time
CAVEATS
Requires Slurm accounting to be configured. Historical data retention depends on Slurm configuration.
HISTORY
Part of Slurm workload manager, the leading HPC cluster resource management system.
