Abstract: Ticks are the second most harmful infectious agent in the world after mosquitoes and can transmit a variety of pathogens. The surveillance of pathogen in ticks is one of the important means for the prevention and control of tick-borne diseases and tick-borne pathogens. This paper reviewed the literature published in the past two decades on the principles， advantages， disadvantages and applications of current tick pathogen detection technologies. The paper introduced the development and application of various PCR technologies， and looks forward to the future direction. Finally， it points out that metagenomics represented by high-throughput sequencing will become the mainstream development direction of pathogen detection technology in the future.