diff --git a/trailblazer/clients/slurm_cli_client/utils.py b/trailblazer/clients/slurm_cli_client/utils.py
index 8a944648..1cfc7382 100644
--- a/trailblazer/clients/slurm_cli_client/utils.py
+++ b/trailblazer/clients/slurm_cli_client/utils.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import subprocess
 
+from trailblazer.clients.slurm_cli_client.models import SqueueResult
 from trailblazer.constants import CharacterFormat, FileFormat
 from trailblazer.exc import EmptySqueueError
 from trailblazer.io.controller import ReadStream
-from trailblazer.clients.slurm_cli_client.models import SqueueResult
 
 
 def cancel_slurm_job(slurm_id: int, analysis_host: str | None = None) -> None:
@@ -23,28 +23,36 @@ def get_slurm_queue(job_ids: list[int], analysis_host: str | None = None) -> Squ
 
 def get_slurm_queue_output(job_ids: str, analysis_host: str | None = None) -> str:
     """Return squeue output from ongoing analyses in SLURM."""
-    squeue_commands: list[str] = [
-        "squeue",
+    sacct_commands: list[str] = [
+        "sacct",
         "--jobs",
         job_ids,
-        "--states=all",
         "--format",
-        "%A,%j,%T,%l,%M,%S",
+        "JobID%10,JobName%50,State%12,Timelimit%12,Elapsed%12,Submit%20",
+        "--parsable2",
+        "--delimiter=,",
+        "--noheader",
     ]
     if analysis_host:
-        squeue_commands = ["ssh", analysis_host] + squeue_commands
-        return (
+        sacct_commands = ["ssh", analysis_host] + sacct_commands
+        output = (
             subprocess.check_output(
-                squeue_commands,
+                sacct_commands,
                 universal_newlines=True,
             )
             .decode(CharacterFormat.UNICODE_TRANSFORMATION_FORMAT_8)
             .strip()
             .replace("//n", "/n")
         )
-    return subprocess.check_output(squeue_commands).decode(
-        CharacterFormat.UNICODE_TRANSFORMATION_FORMAT_8
-    )
+    else:
+        output = (
+            subprocess.check_output(sacct_commands)
+            .decode(CharacterFormat.UNICODE_TRANSFORMATION_FORMAT_8)
+            .strip()
+        )
+
+    squeue_headers = "JOBID,NAME,STATE,TIME_LIMIT,TIME,START_TIME"
+    return squeue_headers + "\n" + output if output else squeue_headers
 
 
 def get_squeue_result(squeue_response: str) -> SqueueResult:
@@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ def get_squeue_result(squeue_response: str) -> SqueueResult:
     Raises:
         TrailblazerError: when no entries were returned by squeue command.
     """
-    if not squeue_response:
+    if not squeue_response or squeue_response.count("\n") <= 1:
         raise EmptySqueueError("No jobs found in SLURM registry")
     squeue_response_content: list[dict] = ReadStream.get_content_from_stream(
         file_format=FileFormat.CSV,