# Monitoring Search Requests

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-search-requests/165176
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-search-requests/165176 "2019-01-22T08:14:44Z")
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### Author: ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-search-requests/165176/1 "2019-01-22T08:14:44Z")

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Hi,  
Can I ask, how can I gather metrics on search activity such as:

- Number of current searches
- Longest running searches
- Highest CPU searches

We occasionally get situations where CPU maxes out on our log ingestion data nodes. I want to determine whether it is outlier searches that are behind that...

Regards  
David

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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: [February 19, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-search-requests/165176/2 "2019-02-19T08:14:52Z")

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