# What's the "qa" plugin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 16, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993 "2018-11-16T07:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993/1 "2018-11-16T07:25:04Z")
When running the following command, we can see the list of all plugins that can be installed by name: ``` bin/elasticsearch-plugin install --help ``` In the list, we can see a plugin named `qa`. Trying to install it, yields the following output: ``` $ bin/elasticsearch-plugin install qa -> Downloading qa from elastic Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/qa/qa-6.5.0.zip at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1944) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1939) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1938) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1508) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1492) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:263) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.downloadZip(InstallPluginCommand.java:380) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.downloadAndValidate(InstallPluginCommand.java:453) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.download(InstallPluginCommand.java:256) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:229) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:216) at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:77) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:47) Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/qa/qa-6.5.0.zip at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1890) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1492) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(HttpURLConnection.java:3000) at java.net.URLConnection.getHeaderFieldLong(URLConnection.java:629) at java.net.URLConnection.getContentLengthLong(URLConnection.java:501) at java.net.URLConnection.getContentLength(URLConnection.java:485) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getContentLength(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:407) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.downloadZip(InstallPluginCommand.java:379) ... 10 more ``` I've tried this on 6.4.2. and 6.5.0 with the same result. I'm not really sure what the `qa` plugin does, why it's showing in the list, and since it does, why it can't be installed. ---
**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993/2 "2018-11-16T09:04:48Z")
This sounds like a bug. `qa` is where some of our test suites live, and not a plugin. I opened [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/35623](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/35623). ---
**Author:** ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993/3 "2018-11-16T09:06:05Z")
Thanks David, I posted here before opening an issue, but glad if you did it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993/4 "2018-11-19T15:21:32Z")
I've merged a PR that'll remove the stray plugins from the list. I suspect it'll go out with 6.6 and they strays will remain in the 6.5 line. Thanks for bringing this up @val and thanks for filing it @DavidTurner! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-qa-plugin/156993/5 "2018-12-17T15:21:40Z")
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