# Monitor Internal Servers up/down
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-internal-servers-up-down/252752
**Category:** Elastic Observability
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-internal-servers-up-down/252752 "2020-10-21T01:24:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Ej\_Eric\_H](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ej_Eric_H)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-internal-servers-up-down/252752/1 "2020-10-21T01:24:24Z")
Hello all,
I am new to elastic. What is the ideal way to setup server monitoring to know when a server is down?
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### Author:  [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-internal-servers-up-down/252752/2 "2020-10-26T16:39:45Z")
Hi @Ej_Eric_H,
I can see several ways to achieve this:
For one, there's the [uptime](https://www.elastic.co/uptime-monitoring) app in Kibana, which uses [heartbeat](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/heartbeat) or the elastic agent to monitor hosts via ICMP ping, DNS queries, TCP connections or HTTP(S) connections, among others.
Alternatively, if you want to monitor your server's metrics anyway, you could use the [metrics](https://www.elastic.co/infrastructure-monitoring) app, which uses metricbeat or the elastic agent to fetch metrics of servers and services.
You should be able to use either to set up alerts that fire when a host is not reachable or doesn't submit metrics anymore. The former is tailored to the specific uptime monitoring use-case while the latter focuses on metric monitoring.
Hope this helps a bit. Please let me know if there are any follow-up questions.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-internal-servers-up-down/252752/3 "2022-11-04T08:15:51Z")