# How to inspect write queue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-inspect-write-queue/225986
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-inspect-write-queue/225986 "2020-04-01T06:33:24Z")
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### Author:  [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-inspect-write-queue/225986/1 "2020-04-01T06:33:24Z")
I'm on 6.8... my write queues are filling up and I don't really know, how to inspect their contents. I have even stopped Logstashes, but something is constantly writing. Does recovery use the write queues?
It's not consistent across all data nodes, I have some that are almost idle.
Any help would be appreciated!
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### Author:  [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-inspect-write-queue/225986/2 "2020-04-03T06:45:16Z")
In the end I used the tasks API and the hot\_threads API to see what's going on.
Recoveries indeed contributed to the queues filling up, stopping it then later limiting the recovery speed help alleviating the problem.
End of thread.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-inspect-write-queue/225986/3 "2020-05-01T06:45:16Z")
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