# How to monitor Elasticsearch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** packetbeat\ **Created:** [May 3, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch/49044 "2016-05-03T11:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![john\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@john\_6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john_6)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch/49044/1 "2016-05-03T11:13:00Z")
I can't see any way to monitor Elasticsearch network traffic with Packetbeat. Is this possible? I don't mean the ES instance that logstash uses, but other instances in our application. It seems like the most obvious use case to me, and I may just be lissing something obvious. It is monitorable by another beat somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch/49044/2 "2016-05-03T12:02:11Z")
you mean the HTTP used by elasticsearch? If plain HTTP is used, it can be monitored by packetbeat. But you will need logstash to parse the URL and json content. Somewhat related to REST interfaces support: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/404](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/404) ---
**Author:** ![john\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@john\_6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john_6)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch/49044/3 "2016-05-06T09:58:44Z")
Thanks, I'll look into that. ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-elasticsearch/49044/4 "2017-07-05T21:52:20Z")