Today Dgraph shares some info about background tasks at /state if I’m not wrong. But I feel it is incomplete. We could improve it and be dumping any task there all the time. Cuz we could expose it to Ratel (making nice visual feedback) or users could create their own dashboard (or bots, or any other automation) to follow it.
Also, I have created a similar ticket last year. Show query progress, specifically for long running queries - My point was about queries, which suffers from the same lack of “What is going on?”.