### Author:  [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/1 "2017-05-26T09:59:55Z")
Hi all,
Have a strange issue where we have around 1500 active tasks on our 5 node 5.2 ES cluster. They are all on the same node (current master, and endpoint for Kibana/Monitoring) and go back for days.
Any ideas what these could be? I tried to do a bulk cancel on them to no avail.
`curl "http://:9200/_cat/tasks?v&h=action,task_id,parent_task_id,type,timestamp"`
...
`indices:admin/get I_eYf5eiTX-uwkuoO2huEA:26400939 - transport 09:58:17`
...
I'm not sure if it's causing an issue, but it's not happening on our 2.3 cluster.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Dave
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/2 "2017-05-26T10:02:24Z")
Do you have a transport client connected to the cluster?
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### Author:  [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/3 "2017-05-26T10:04:11Z")
Not quite sure what would constitute as a transport client. We do use the readonlyrest plugin though, although that's on all nodes in the cluster, not just the master (where I'm seeing this).
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/4 "2017-05-26T10:09:12Z")
What does `_cat/nodes` show?
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### Author:  [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/5 "2017-05-26T10:12:03Z")
```
ip heap.percent ram.percent cpu load_1m load_5m load_15m node.role master name
172.16.16.56 21 97 0 0.01 0.03 0.05 mdi - nodeb
172.16.16.46 27 98 0 0.00 0.01 0.05 mdi - noded
172.16.16.73 74 98 0 0.00 0.01 0.05 mdi - nodee
172.16.16.13 43 98 0 0.00 0.01 0.05 mdi - nodec
172.16.16.23 24 98 1 0.03 0.04 0.05 mdi * nodea
```
One other thing I've noticed with the tasks - they appear to be every minute, and there are 4 of them for each minute.
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### Author:  [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/6 "2017-05-26T13:53:14Z")
I've just check, this is actually happening on our single-node 5.3.2 instance too. Any ideas what might be doing it?
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### Author:  [@dwjvaughan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dwjvaughan)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/7 "2017-05-31T14:03:27Z")
I've done a bit more digging on this - it appears to be related to http auth, readonlyrest and Sense. When you are prompted for user/password it's logged as a failed attempt in the ROR logs, but the `indices:admin/get` task hangs around.
I've [raised it to readonlyrest](https://github.com/sscarduzio/elasticsearch-readonlyrest-plugin/issues/236) but I'm not sure if this is an ES bug or ROR - the problem is I can't cancel the tasks in ES.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/many-active-indices-admin-get-tasks/87225/8 "2017-06-28T14:03:31Z")
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