# Working with Actions

An action is an abstraction of some logic that can be executed by a worker thread. Most of the operations supported by Senlin are executed asynchronously, which means they are queued into database and then picked up by certain worker thread for execution.

## List Actions

To examine the list of actions:

When listing actions, you can specify the sorting option using the `sort` parameter and you can do pagination using the `limit` and `marker` parameters.

Full example: manage action

## Get Action

To get a action based on its name or ID:

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