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# Top N queries

Monitoring the top N queries in query insights features can help you gain real-time insights into the top queries with high latency within a certain time frame (for example, the last hour).
Monitoring the top N queries using query insights allows you to gain real-time visibility into the queries with the highest latency or resource consumption in a specified time period (for example, the last hour).

## Configuring top N query monitoring

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## Monitoring the top N queries

You can use the Insights API endpoint to obtain the top N queries for all metric types:
You can use the Insights API endpoint to retrieve the top N queries. This API returns top N `latency` results by default.

```json
GET /_insights/top_queries
```
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Specify a metric type to filter the response:
Specify the `type` parameter to retrieve the top N results for other metric types. The results will be sorted in descending order based on the specified metric type.

```json
GET /_insights/top_queries?type=latency
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```
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If your query returns no results, ensure that top N query monitoring is enabled for the target metric type and that search requests were made within the current [time window](#configuring-the-window-size).
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## Exporting top N query data

You can configure your desired exporter to export top N query data to different sinks, allowing for better monitoring and analysis of your OpenSearch queries. Currently, the following exporters are supported:
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