diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
index f03e1fd4dd1c9..66aa15c569279 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ protected void doExecute(Task task, MultiSearchRequest request, ActionListener<M
         Queue<SearchRequestSlot> searchRequestSlots = new ConcurrentLinkedQueue<>();
         for (int i = 0; i < request.requests().size(); i++) {
             SearchRequest searchRequest = request.requests().get(i);
+            searchRequest.setParentTask(client.getLocalNodeId(), task.getId());
             searchRequestSlots.add(new SearchRequestSlot(searchRequest, i));
         }
 
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchActionTookTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchActionTookTests.java
index 01f1109ef3bed..19b53e2f8d380 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchActionTookTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/MultiSearchActionTookTests.java
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ public void search(final SearchRequest request, final ActionListener<SearchRespo
                         ShardSearchFailure.EMPTY_ARRAY, SearchResponse.Clusters.EMPTY));
                 });
             }
+
+            @Override
+            public String getLocalNodeId() {
+                return "local_node_id";
+            }
         };
 
         if (controlledClock) {
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
index b405b0790debc..1b8fea2e78f05 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.ActionFilter;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.ActionFilters;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.ActionTestUtils;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.support.PlainActionFuture;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterName;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterState;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.UUIDs;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.internal.InternalSearchResponse;
+import org.elasticsearch.tasks.Task;
 import org.elasticsearch.tasks.TaskManager;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
 import org.elasticsearch.threadpool.TestThreadPool;
@@ -53,6 +55,7 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
+import static org.elasticsearch.action.support.PlainActionFuture.newFuture;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.nullValue;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
@@ -76,7 +79,62 @@ public void tearDown() throws Exception {
         super.tearDown();
     }
 
-    public void testBatchExecute() throws Exception {
+    public void testParentTaskId() throws Exception {
+        // Initialize dependencies of TransportMultiSearchAction
+        Settings settings = Settings.builder()
+            .put("node.name", TransportMultiSearchActionTests.class.getSimpleName())
+            .build();
+        ActionFilters actionFilters = mock(ActionFilters.class);
+        when(actionFilters.filters()).thenReturn(new ActionFilter[0]);
+        ThreadPool threadPool = new ThreadPool(settings);
+        try {
+            TransportService transportService = new TransportService(Settings.EMPTY, mock(Transport.class), threadPool,
+                TransportService.NOOP_TRANSPORT_INTERCEPTOR,
+                boundAddress -> DiscoveryNode.createLocal(settings, boundAddress.publishAddress(), UUIDs.randomBase64UUID()), null,
+                Collections.emptySet()) {
+                @Override
+                public TaskManager getTaskManager() {
+                    return taskManager;
+                }
+            };
+            ClusterService clusterService = mock(ClusterService.class);
+            when(clusterService.state()).thenReturn(ClusterState.builder(new ClusterName("test")).build());
+
+            String localNodeId = randomAlphaOfLengthBetween(3, 10);
+            int numSearchRequests = randomIntBetween(1, 100);
+            MultiSearchRequest multiSearchRequest = new MultiSearchRequest();
+            for (int i = 0; i < numSearchRequests; i++) {
+                multiSearchRequest.add(new SearchRequest());
+            }
+            AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger(0);
+            Task task = multiSearchRequest.createTask(randomLong(), "type", "action", null, Collections.emptyMap());
+            NodeClient client = new NodeClient(settings, threadPool) {
+                @Override
+                public void search(final SearchRequest request, final ActionListener<SearchResponse> listener) {
+                    assertEquals(task.getId(), request.getParentTask().getId());
+                    assertEquals(localNodeId, request.getParentTask().getNodeId());
+                    counter.incrementAndGet();
+                    listener.onResponse(SearchResponse.empty(() -> 1L, SearchResponse.Clusters.EMPTY));
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public String getLocalNodeId() {
+                    return localNodeId;
+                }
+            };
+            TransportMultiSearchAction action =
+                new TransportMultiSearchAction(threadPool, actionFilters, transportService, clusterService, 10, System::nanoTime, client);
+
+            PlainActionFuture<MultiSearchResponse> future = newFuture();
+            action.execute(task, multiSearchRequest, future);
+            future.get();
+            assertEquals(numSearchRequests, counter.get());
+        } finally {
+            assertTrue(ESTestCase.terminate(threadPool));
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testBatchExecute() {
         // Initialize dependencies of TransportMultiSearchAction
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
                 .put("node.name", TransportMultiSearchActionTests.class.getSimpleName())
@@ -123,6 +181,11 @@ public void search(final SearchRequest request, final ActionListener<SearchRespo
                         ShardSearchFailure.EMPTY_ARRAY, SearchResponse.Clusters.EMPTY));
                 });
             }
+
+            @Override
+            public String getLocalNodeId() {
+                return "local_node_id";
+            }
         };
 
         TransportMultiSearchAction action =