# Easy way to monitor ElasticSearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404 "2023-02-01T09:18:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@frankmehlhop.com](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/frankmehlhop.com)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404/1 "2023-02-01T09:18:21Z")
I want a **easy way to monitor Elasticsearch**.
What I found is Metricbeat. But it seems to be very extensive.
For my purpose it is enough to **see green, yellow, red** and it would be **nice to have** if the **administrator gets a message** when the status changes to yellow or red.
What is a easy way to monitor Elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@Wave](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wave)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404/2 "2023-02-19T19:49:05Z")
You can use [watcher](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.6/watch-cluster-status.html) to do something like that. I'd still recommend turning on Stack Monitoring for a cluster though, which can be done through metricbeat like you've found, or "self monitoring" can be turned on through the kibana user interface.
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404/3 "2023-02-19T20:04:45Z")
There is the `_health` endpoint
> **[Cluster health API | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.6\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-health.html#cluster-health-api-example)**
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404/4 "2023-02-20T01:08:15Z")
The easiest way is using the `_cluster/health` endpoint, it will return a json response where the status will be in a key named `status`.
You may write a little script in bash or python for example that would query this endpoint and trigger something depending on the status.
I had something like this a couple of time ago.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/easy-way-to-monitor-elasticsearch/324404/5 "2023-03-20T01:09:12Z")
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