# How to Capture user's activity in Elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346 "2021-08-24T12:29:54Z")
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### Author: ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/1 "2021-08-24T12:29:54Z")

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Dear Elastic Users,

I am working on an Elasticsearch POC and as part of that i need to capture below details  
-- What users are searching for  
-- Which links users are clicking

In short i want to capture users activity. In solr Fusion there is an out of box feature for capturing these information which is know as signal capturing.

Do we have something similar to that in Elasticsearch which can help us in capturing users activity.

Thanks in Advance!!

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/2 "2021-08-25T01:10:12Z")

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Can you please edit your post and remove the code formatting, it makes it very hard to read what you are asking 🙂

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### Author: ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/3 "2021-08-25T05:23:31Z")

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Done

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/4 "2021-08-25T05:25:39Z")

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Thanks.

What do you want to capture activity from exactly, Elasticsearch and Kibana, or something else?

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### Author: ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/5 "2021-08-25T05:28:59Z")

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I want to capture What User's are searching so that based upon there search history we can do the recommendation and relevance tuning.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/6 "2021-08-25T05:32:20Z")

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Ok but what is querying Elasticsearch?  
There's nothing native to Elasticsearch that can do this, but you can do it externally depending on what is making the queries.

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### Author: ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/7 "2021-08-25T05:35:44Z")

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I have an Elasticsearch clusters where i have indexed my data. Now i want to capture as part of visualization that which data's from my index are being frequently searched by users.

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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: [September 22, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-users-activity-in-elasticsearch/282346/8 "2021-09-22T05:35:49Z")

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