Let us say that a continuous linear operator $T$ acting on some Polish topological vector space is ergodic if it admits an ergodic probability measure with full support. This talk will be centred in the following question: how can we see that an operator is or is not ergodic? More precisely, I will try (if I'm able to manage my time) to talk about two “positive" results and one “negative" result. The first positive result says that if the operator $T$ acts on a reflexive Banach space and satisfies a strong form of frequent hypercyclicity, then $T$ is ergodic. The second positive result is the well-known criterion for ergodicity relying on the perfect spanning property for unimodular eigenvectors, of which I will outline a “soft" Baire category proof. The negative result will be stated in terms of a parameter measuring the maximal frequency with which (generically) the orbit of a hypercyclic vector for $T$ can visit a ball centred at 0. The talk is based on joint work with Sophie Grivaux.[-]