# ECE Monitoring **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [June 13, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-monitoring/185547 "2019-06-13T06:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NidOf3lp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@NidOf3lp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NidOf3lp)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-monitoring/185547/1 "2019-06-13T06:27:09Z")
Hi, We have an ECE installation hosting a couple of elastic clusters. We have deployed a cluster dedicated to monitoring and that was working well until the monitoring cluster went down. So now the questions I have are: How do I monitor my monitoring cluster? self-monitoring with watchers in place to warn of potential problems? Monitoring it from one of the other clusters (so basically they monitor one another)? Else? Is there a best practice approach for this case? Thanks for your help ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-monitoring/185547/2 "2019-06-13T17:32:12Z")
Hi @NidOf3lp This is a surprisingly uncommonly asked question! I asked our support ops team what their recommendation was based on their usage and they suggested: - Self monitor, and - Use a 3rd party "heartbeat" service like StatusCake do uptime pings Alex ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ece-monitoring/185547/3 "2019-06-27T17:32:13Z")
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