# Monitoring Elastic Stack?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791 "2021-09-09T14:34:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![riahc3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/1 "2021-09-09T14:34:44Z")

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Hello

We have a monitoring system that watchest the Elastic Stack but the CPU and memory randomly shoot up to 94% (in case of memory) and all of a sudden, go back down to 70% or so.

Are there any metrics that I should watch? Levels of warning and critical?

Thank you

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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:** [September 10, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/2 "2021-09-10T00:09:03Z")

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We'd recommend using the inbuilt Monitoring functionality - [Monitor a cluster | Elasticsearch Guide [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/monitor-elasticsearch-cluster.html)

What is the system you are using and what does it check for?

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**Author:** ![riahc3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/3 "2021-09-10T06:55:50Z")

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> What is the system you are using and what does it check for?

Nagios. A monitoring system that is centralized is better IMO.

Its pretty basic; CPU, memory, disk space and if the services are up and running.

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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:** [September 13, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/4 "2021-09-13T01:02:19Z")

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Without deeper insight into what the cluster is doing, what you are monitoring won't tell you much unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![riahc3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/5 "2021-09-13T08:44:09Z")

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Understandable.

Thanks for the help 🙂

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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:** [October 11, 2021, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elastic-stack/283791/6 "2021-10-11T08:44:55Z")

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