# How will i know that elasticsearch has crashed or stopped working?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 21, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988 "2018-07-21T09:20:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Shrimp-Fried-Rice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrimp-Fried-Rice)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/1 "2018-07-21T09:20:54Z")
i have few questions in mind,
1. Is there way to get notified if elasticsearch crashes or stops working ?
2. is there system in place to auto start elasticsearch if it crashes ? just like in mysql ?
3. can i start elasticsearch and forget about it ? its been running from last 4 days without any issues.
i mean, i can rest in peace knowing that website searches are working properly ?
4. or does it need regular/constant monitoring ?
if yes, then what type of monitoring ?
right now i am monitoring from kibana \> monitoring \> indices \> my\_index
Thanks for your time
have a great day ahead.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/2 "2018-07-22T21:16:02Z")
Do you monitor other systems you have in place? This isn't a question specific to Elasticsearch 🙂
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### Author:  [@Shrimp-Fried-Rice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrimp-Fried-Rice)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/3 "2018-07-23T02:27:32Z")
i monitor site uptime using pingdom, aka nginx , phpfpm
mysql has auto restart after crash.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/4 "2018-07-23T04:31:00Z")
You can call `HOST:9200` and that will tell you if that host is running Elasticsearch properly.
You can also use things like [https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/monitoring](https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/monitoring)
There's no way to auto restart it though.
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### Author:  [@Shrimp-Fried-Rice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shrimp-Fried-Rice)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/5 "2018-07-23T05:54:45Z")
Thank you, that will work.,
checking if curl request to 9200 comes back positive and do accordingly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-will-i-know-that-elasticsearch-has-crashed-or-stopped-working/140988/6 "2018-08-20T05:54:45Z")
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