# How to monitor whether ELK stack along with filebeat is down?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051 "2018-07-15T07:38:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Watch\_out](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/watch_out/32/45510_2.png) [@Watch\_out](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Watch_out)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/1 "2018-07-15T07:38:08Z")

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We have no idea that Some one restarted tomcat server where filebeat is running. Filebeat dead since then.  
So almost 10 days later we observed that filebat on that server not pushing logs, as a result we lost so much data(logs).

Sometimes Elasticsearch ran into issues, went down. We won't get alerts until some one say that kibana is not showing anything.

So, can someone please help me that

1. How can i monitor ELK stack along with beats.(My company won't give budget for x-pack 😢 ).
2. We need alerts, when any of the above services went down. So it can capable to send email?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/2 "2018-07-15T14:02:21Z")

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1. Monitoring is available for free in xpack basic.  
Just download 6.3.1 and you're all set.
2. You can run a cronjob which calls elasticsearch every x seconds and send an e-mail in case something is wrong.

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**Author:** ![Watch\_out](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/watch_out/32/45510_2.png) [@Watch\_out](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Watch_out)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/3 "2018-07-15T14:43:06Z")

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Thank you for your info.

Although we are running ELK 6.2.4 along with Kafka and zookeeper.  
Is there any specific configuration or settings needed to use x-pack basic here for kafka and zookeeper?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/4 "2018-07-15T18:12:59Z")

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You can ask for a basic license if you wish.  
Note that monitoring applies to elastic components, not 3rd party components.

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**Author:** ![Watch\_out](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/watch_out/32/45510_2.png) [@Watch\_out](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Watch_out)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/5 "2018-07-16T04:07:22Z")

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Fine, thank you.  
Let me try basic license.

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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:** [August 13, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-whether-elk-stack-along-with-filebeat-is-down/140051/6 "2018-08-13T04:07:24Z")

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