# Monitoring API query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 28, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200 "2021-06-28T10:21:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@priamai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/priamai)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200/1 "2021-06-28T10:21:51Z")
Hi there,
I am with ELK 7.13.0 the basic free licence.
Is there a way to monitor the queries that are performed via the Elastic API? Even to keep the last N most recent ones for example.
I basically have different python programs with a variety of libraries from panda-es to hadoop-spark which I want to assess in terms of performance and how queries are actually translated.
I don't use Logstash or any of the filebeats just pure API calls.
Cheers.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200/2 "2021-07-01T02:09:24Z")
There is [audit logging](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/enable-audit-logging.html) in Gold and above subscriptions.
Otherwise you can tweak the slowlogs to record everything and then parse that, or use Packetbeat to track traffic on 9200, but that's DIY.
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### Author:  [@priamai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/priamai)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200/3 "2021-07-01T05:25:58Z")
Thanks for the pointer, with regards to the DIY solution, I don't believe Packetbeat will be able to MIDM when I am using an SSL configuration (even if is self signed) right?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200/4 "2021-07-01T05:30:31Z")
That's correct.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-api-query/277200/5 "2021-07-29T05:31:18Z")
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