# Index .tasks missing

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687 "2020-11-17T12:20:52Z")
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### Author: ![aurimas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@aurimas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aurimas)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687/1 "2020-11-17T12:20:52Z")

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Hi,  
I am trying to track problematic tasks in Elasticsearch 6.8. And as I understast such tasks should be visable in .tasks index. But it is non existing and I can not find any documentation how to enable it.

\_tasks API is an option but it only shows currently running tasks .

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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: [November 17, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687/2 "2020-11-17T23:02:07Z")

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What do you mean by problematic tasks here?

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### Author: ![aurimas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@aurimas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aurimas)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687/3 "2020-11-24T15:04:08Z")

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Mostly big queries. When users run searches for three months on huge multiple indexes and makes writing to cluster time out. I want to find such queries and figure out what to do about them.

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### Author: ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687/4 "2020-11-24T15:20:37Z")

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I don't think slow searches are logged in the `.tasks` index, but you can configure them to appear in the [slow log](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules-slowlog.html) instead.

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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 22, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-tasks-missing/255687/5 "2020-12-22T15:21:01Z")

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