# Any way to find what is running on Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-find-what-is-running-on-elasticsearch/65806>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-find-what-is-running-on-elasticsearch/65806 "2016-11-11T13:10:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![fassisrosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a87d85/32.png) [@fassisrosa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fassisrosa)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-find-what-is-running-on-elasticsearch/65806/1 "2016-11-11T13:10:25Z")

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Hi there,

Is there any way for me to find what operations are currently running against Elasticsearch?  
Kind of like 'processlist' does for MySQL?

Thanks,

Francisco.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-find-what-is-running-on-elasticsearch/65806/2 "2016-11-11T21:20:42Z")

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For long running tasks, you have [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/tasks.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/tasks.html)  
For getting an idea of actual code running, look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/cluster-nodes-hot-threads.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/cluster-nodes-hot-threads.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-find-what-is-running-on-elasticsearch/65806/3 "2016-12-09T21:20:47Z")

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