This time I built accounting in and so I'm new to sacct.

When I run sacct without a state filter, I see the jobs correctly marked as COMPLETED:

sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State | grep COMPLETED | head -10
9             COMPLETED
9.batch       COMPLETED
9.extern      COMPLETED
9.0           COMPLETED
39            COMPLETED
39.batch      COMPLETED
39.extern     COMPLETED
39.0          COMPLETED
40            COMPLETED
40.batch      COMPLETED

When I attempt to filter for those exact states (using either the short or long flag), the output is empty:

sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed

JobID             State
------------ ----------

(no output beyond the heading)

Am I using it wrong?

Cheers,

Norm.