# API URL monitoring using ELK for checking if UP or DOWN
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868 "2016-04-20T07:19:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Kulkarni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Kulkarni)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/1 "2016-04-20T07:19:54Z")
Hello,
Is there any way i can monitor API URLs using ELK .
Thanks in advance
-Amit
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### Author:  [@cbuescher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbuescher)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/2 "2016-04-20T08:29:05Z")
Hi Amit,
can you try and explain a little bit more what exactly you are trying to do? Otherwise people here will struggle to give helpful advice.
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Kulkarni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Kulkarni)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2016, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/5 "2016-04-20T09:51:35Z")
Hello,
I have 25 URLs coming from Cloudfoundry .
I want to monitor the URLs if they are up or down using ELK .
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/6 "2016-04-24T15:33:00Z")
You _could_ use Elasticsearch, Logstash and Watcher for this, but I don't see why. For monitoring (and, presumably, alerting) of services there are better tools than the Elastic stack.
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Kulkarni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Kulkarni)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/7 "2016-04-25T04:33:01Z")
True..agree... Somehow convinced client not to use ELK for monitoring.. 🙂
thanks a lot lot for all the help.
Thanks,
-Amit
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-url-monitoring-using-elk-for-checking-if-up-or-down/47868/8 "2017-07-05T22:56:35Z")