# Thread dump - where does it get logged?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 22, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814 "2012-05-22T20:38:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814/1 "2012-05-22T20:38:21Z")
Hi,
I'm trying to do a thread dump using "sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch dump",
but all I get is this in /wrapper.log file:
STATUS | wrapper | 2012/05/22 16:26:40 | Dumping JVM state.
I also tried directly kill -QUITing the ES JVM process, but couldn't find
the dump anywhere. I didn't see it in /logs/.log
where I thought I'd see it.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
## Thanks, Otis
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### Author:  [@Mauricio\_Linhares](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Linhares)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814/2 "2012-05-22T20:41:24Z")
Have you tried:
jstack -l PID\_HERE
?
-
Maurício Linhares
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On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a thread dump using "sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch dump", but all I get is this in /wrapper.log file:
>
> STATUS | wrapper | 2012/05/22 16:26:40 | Dumping JVM state.
>
> I also tried directly kill -QUITing the ES JVM process, but couldn't find the dump anywhere. I didn't see it in /logs/.log where I thought I'd see it.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ## Thanks, Otis
>
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)
> Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
---
### Author:  [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814/3 "2012-05-23T20:47:08Z")
How why would I use something as simple as jstack when I can use kill
-QUIT? Just kidding - that worked, thanks!
## Otis
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On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:41:24 PM UTC-4, Maurício Linhares wrote:
> Have you tried:
>
> jstack -l PID\_HERE
>
> ?
>
> -
>
> Maurício Linhares
> [http://techbot.me/](http://techbot.me/) - [http://twitter.com/#!/mauriciojr](http://twitter.com/#!/mauriciojr)
>
> On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do a thread dump using "sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch
> dump", but all I get is this in /wrapper.log file:
>
> STATUS | wrapper | 2012/05/22 16:26:40 | Dumping JVM state.
>
> I also tried directly kill -QUITing the ES JVM process, but couldn't find
> the dump anywhere. I didn't see it in /logs/.log
> where I thought I'd see it.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ## Thanks, Otis
>
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)
> Scalable Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thread-dump-where-does-it-get-logged/7814/4 "2017-07-06T03:27:29Z")