# Can we use ElastAlert to monitor ElasticSearch Cluster Status?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472 "2017-02-17T10:20:12Z")
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### Author: ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472/1 "2017-02-17T10:20:12Z")

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Can we use ElastAlert to monitor ElasticSearch Cluster Status??

Any help to configure rules for monitoring ElasticSearch Cluster Status?

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### Author: ![anhlqn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anhlqn/32/5454_2.png) [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472/2 "2017-02-17T17:09:38Z")

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I use PRTG to monitor the health status of my ES clusters http://\<node\_ip\>:9200/\_cat/health?h=status. It would alert on either yellow or red. If it's just ES cluster stats, either some shell script or Powershell is good enough.

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### Author: ![nethis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@nethis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nethis)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472/3 "2017-02-18T02:50:03Z")

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@anhlqn Could you please give me some pointers on PRTG? any documentation to install, setup and configure that.

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### Author: ![anhlqn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anhlqn/32/5454_2.png) [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472/4 "2017-02-18T05:36:35Z")

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If you just need to monitor ES health status, just use Invoke-RestMethod on Powershell or curl to query and alert. [https://www.paessler.com/download/prtg-download](https://www.paessler.com/download/prtg-download) \< use HTTP sensor.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-elastalert-to-monitor-elasticsearch-cluster-status/75472/5 "2017-03-18T05:37:06Z")

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