# Head plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829 "2018-08-10T08:04:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Arun\_Murugappan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arun_murugappan/32/101630_2.png) [@Arun\_Murugappan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arun_Murugappan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829/1 "2018-08-10T08:04:24Z")

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Head plugin is used to check the status of the cluster (servers/indices/ shards). Are they up and running? But this is not supported in elasticsearch 5.x. Are there alternatives to serve the same purpose?

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**Author:** ![A\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_b/32/17104_2.png) [@A\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_B)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829/2 "2018-08-10T08:31:17Z")

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The latest Kibana comes with X-Pack monitoring as standard.

If you don't use Kibana...

_ElasticHQ is an open source application that offers a simplified interface for managing and monitoring Elasticsearch clusters._  
[http://www.elastichq.org/](http://www.elastichq.org/)

There is also a Chrome browser Extansion of Elasticsearch Head.

> **[TravisTX/elasticsearch-head-chrome](https://github.com/TravisTX/elasticsearch-head-chrome)**
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> elasticsearch-head-chrome - Chrome Extension containing the ElasticSearch Head application.

There are probably more out there 🙂

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**Author:** ![Arun\_Murugappan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arun_murugappan/32/101630_2.png) [@Arun\_Murugappan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arun_Murugappan)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829/3 "2018-08-10T09:44:15Z")

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thanks

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**Author:** ![gabriel\_tessier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gabriel_tessier/32/27911_2.png) [@gabriel\_tessier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel_tessier)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829/4 "2018-08-11T09:29:09Z")

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Yes there's more:  
Cerebro: [https://github.com/lmenezes/cerebro](https://github.com/lmenezes/cerebro)  
with docker image:  
[https://github.com/yannart/docker-cerebro](https://github.com/yannart/docker-cerebro)

And lots of tutorial if you search for "cerebro elasticsearch".

I was also using head but quickly move to kopf and now I'm using cerebro.

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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:** [September 8, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/head-plugin/143829/5 "2018-09-08T09:29:13Z")

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