# Monitor the indexing rate of specific index?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781 "2017-09-08T03:03:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@quanta84](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quanta84)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/1 "2017-09-08T03:03:17Z")
We are using fluentd to send logs to ElasticSearch:
```
@type elasticsearch
host elasticsearch
port 9200
logstash_format true
index_name logstash
type_name logstash
```
For some reasons, sometimes index is not being created, and Kibana has nothing to display in Last 7 days.
I would like to monitor this situation to send me an alert whenever it happens. In Kibana, we have a graph that displays the number of messages per 30 seconds (for logstash-\* index). What is the corresponding metric in ElasticSearch: [https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/master/plugins/inputs/elasticsearch)
so I can add metrics and setup an alert for it in Grafana?
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### Author:  [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/2 "2017-09-10T03:31:44Z")
Check the `.monitoring-es-*` indices. All monitoring data to into those indices.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/3 "2017-09-10T03:46:53Z")
Only if you have X-Pack with Monitoring enabled.
I don't believe there is a specific API response that provides this. The Monitoring functionality extracts it from the existing API responses.
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### Author:  [@quanta84](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quanta84)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/4 "2017-09-12T02:35:17Z")
> Check the .monitoring-es-\* indices. All monitoring data to into those indices.
What can I do with those indices?
> Only if you have X-Pack with Monitoring enabled.
After enabling X-Pack monitoring feature, I can see that there is a graph for Indexing rate with an explanation for Primary shards is:
> The number of documents are being indexed for the primary shards
Question: There is no corresponding field in Cluster stats?[Cluster stats API | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-stats.html)
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### Author:  [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/5 "2017-09-12T02:38:00Z")
> [@quanta84](#):
>
> What can I do with those indices?
Those indices contains the raw data that feeds the Monitoring graphs related to Indexing Rate
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-indexing-rate-of-specific-index/99781/6 "2017-10-10T02:38:03Z")
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