# How do we monitor specific counters related to elastic search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 23, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688 "2016-05-23T09:58:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sravani\_amarachinta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sravani\_amarachinta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sravani_amarachinta)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/1 "2016-05-23T09:58:07Z")

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how do we monitor specific counters related to elastic search?  
How do we enable JMX monitoring in elastic search?  
Is there any way to configure?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/2 "2016-05-23T10:07:49Z")

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> [@sravani\_amarachinta](#):
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> how do we monitor specific counters related to Elasticsearch?

What counters?  
Why not use Marvel?

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**Author:** ![sravani\_amarachinta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sravani\_amarachinta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sravani_amarachinta)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/3 "2016-05-23T10:27:05Z")

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In order to use marvel, do we need to install kibana?

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**Author:** ![sravani\_amarachinta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sravani\_amarachinta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sravani_amarachinta)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/4 "2016-05-23T10:29:09Z")

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And counters will be specific to the elastic search (like identifying the REST/CAT API's which are taking time)

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**Author:** ![sravani\_amarachinta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sravani\_amarachinta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sravani_amarachinta)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/5 "2016-05-24T05:55:15Z")

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Do we have any other way to monitor the cluster heath, nodes, search latency, indexing rate without using marvel.But using the API's.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/6 "2016-05-24T08:49:39Z")

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> [@sravani\_amarachinta](#):
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> In order to use marvel, do we need to install kibana?

Yes.

> [@sravani\_amarachinta](#):
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> Do we have any other way to monitor the cluster heath, nodes, search latency, indexing rate without using marvel.But using the API's.

There are other plugins available, like kopf.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-monitor-specific-counters-related-to-elastic-search/50688/7 "2017-07-05T22:49:38Z")

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