# Metrics and Alerts for Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [November 23, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319 "2020-11-23T07:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chen\_Levi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chen_levi/32/56529_2.png) [@Chen\_Levi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chen_Levi)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319/1 "2020-11-23T07:59:07Z")

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Hi

Im trying to do pretty simple thing for our ElasticSearch cluster ([Elastic.co](http://Elastic.co)) and i cant seems to find the right way of doing so.

i have an Elasticsearch cluster managed by [Elastic.co](http://Elastic.co) and i've used to monitor it using elastic-exporter deployment on our GKE to be able to get notified for high cpu, high memory , etc.

i wanted to remove these exporters and to use monitoring and alerts of Kibana.  
from the ES console i've enabled 'shipping metrics to deployment' (god knows why this option exists) so i assumed i should see now metrics data on kibana to be able to alert on that.

on Kibana, when looking on 'Stack monitoring' we see all needed graphs, cpu , memory, indexes, etc, but when switchinbg to 'Stack management' in order to create alert on any metric , i cannot find metrics information. everything is empty.  
also on 'Observability' the nodes list is empty.

is anyone was able to create alerts from kibana for the Elasticsearch cluster itself?  
i see there are options to install metricbeat and other to monitor other components.  
i only want to monitor the existing cluster, it make no sense i need to install any module for that.

any idea?  
10x

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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:** [November 23, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319/2 "2020-11-23T08:14:24Z")

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If you "Ship to a deployment" it's going to be shipping the metrics to another Elastic Cloud deployment.

If you've configured that and selected a cluster, then you will need to login to the cluster you selected to view the Monitoring information.

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**Author:** ![Chen\_Levi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chen_levi/32/56529_2.png) [@Chen\_Levi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chen_Levi)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319/3 "2020-11-23T08:33:05Z")

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thanks for your response.

i've indeed chose 'ship to deployment' and i chose the existing cluster.  
again, on the Stack monitoring i do see the monitoring data and all the graphs.  
but , on Stack management, i dont.

10x

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319/4 "2020-11-24T14:08:24Z")

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The Stack Monitoring plugin ships automatically with alerts, which you can [read about here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/kibana-alerts.html).

If you want to create your own alerts on the stack monitoring data, you have two choices:

- Use the generic alert management UI to create a threshold alert on `.monitoring-*` indices. [More information here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/alert-types.html)
- Use watcher to create any kind of alert. [More information here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.10/watcher-ui.html)

Alternatively, you can file [a request](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md) to have a specific alert created with Stack Monitoring automatically.

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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:** [December 22, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-and-alerts-for-elasticsearch/256319/5 "2020-12-22T14:08:26Z")

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