Moved from GitHub ratel/207
Posted by danielmai:
As of Dgraph v20.03.0, indexing can be run in the background: https://dgraph.io/docs/query-language/#indexes-in-background
As of v20.03.1 in-progress indexing tasks can be tracked via /health ("ongoing" and "indexing"): https://dgraph.io/docs/deploy/#querying-health