Determine if a job is currently running on the server where the runner is installed?

[retzero]

Hi,

I want to check whether there is a job currently in progress on the VM where runner application is installed without using Rest API.

I got below process if I ps with Runner string.
Is it safe to judge whether a job is in progress with this process name?
What is the best way to do this?

root      359124   18395 30 05:34 ?        00:00:03 /home/github/actions-runner/bin/Runner.Worker spawnclient 99 105

[thboop]

The Worker client is only spawned once a job is received, and exits once the job completes. I can say this will currently tell you if a job is running, but it really isn't our supported way to do this.

We have some backlog issues to add better telemetry/hooks to what the runner is doing that we hope to do in the future.