# Any open source plugin for alerting elastic search instability or issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 30, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256 "2017-01-30T17:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/1 "2017-01-30T17:44:55Z")
Hi There, Could you please suggest us any plugins/tools available for monitoring and elastic search unstability/ unavailability/cluster health status other than green. etc.. We are primary looking for open source tools, as we can go for the paid offer as of now. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/2 "2017-01-30T18:03:56Z")
x-pack has a free license which gives you access to monitoring features. It does not create alerts though. But alerts is something you can probably do by running a simple curl command from a crontab. ---
**Author:** ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/3 "2017-02-01T04:30:49Z")
Can you please point us to some esamples or documentation for alerts? We are new to curl/crontab. Also, our VMs are Azure Windowss VMs. I hope we can use Curl and crontab in windows too. ---
**Author:** ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/4 "2017-02-01T04:33:42Z")
@dadoonet Also, seems x-pack is supporting for ES 5.0, but we are still in 2.4.0. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/5 "2017-02-01T05:39:21Z")
Alerting is available for Elasticsearch 2.4 through [Watcher](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/index.html), which is now part of X-Pack. ---
**Author:** ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/6 "2017-02-01T06:39:09Z")
@Christian_Dahlqvist we are primary looking for the opensource tool, but watcher is the paid plugin. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-open-source-plugin-for-alerting-elastic-search-instability-or-issues/73256/7 "2017-03-01T06:39:10Z")
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