# Is there any introduction about the action in \_cat/tasks api
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271 "2022-03-22T06:07:34Z")
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### Author:  [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/1 "2022-03-22T06:07:34Z")
Is there any introduction about all list of the action of \_cat/tasks?
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### Author:  [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/2 "2022-03-22T08:33:49Z")
It's a beta feature and probably that's the reason the actions are documented yet probably.
I haven't used it but you can try if this works in your setup:
actions
(Optional, string) Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of actions used to limit the request.
Omit this parameter to return all actions.
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### Author:  [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/3 "2022-03-22T08:51:05Z")
Now I don't want to use this field to filter the returns.
I meant is there any where to list all the actions, I want to know what is the task doing by see the task's action.
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### Author:  [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/4 "2022-03-22T12:47:13Z")
you can use the [task](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html#tasks) management api for that right ?
`GET /_tasks`
`GET /_tasks/`
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### Author:  [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/5 "2022-03-23T00:42:56Z")
GET /\_tasks/\ seems ok for every task.
Actually ,every task run for a moment, there's no time to execute this at time.
GET /\_tasks is too complex to read.
I need the value range for the action field, and all the introduction for every value.
Maybe we can get a list from where.
If we know it, we can watch the actions of \_cat/tasks for a while to know the cluster is doing what at these times.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-introduction-about-the-action-in-cat-tasks-api/300271/6 "2022-04-20T00:42:58Z")
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