# Monitoring Elasticsearch with custom metrics

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch-with-custom-metrics/97485
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 17, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch-with-custom-metrics/97485 "2017-08-17T20:58:20Z")
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### Author: ![gthm777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ab097/32.png) [@gthm777](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gthm777)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch-with-custom-metrics/97485/1 "2017-08-17T20:58:20Z")

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Hello Team,

Apart from the generic health dashboards for monitoring the health of the elasticsearch, is there anyway to measure the following metrics through API calls ?

- The number of active users in the elasticsearch cluster at a given time.
- Finding out the disk space occupied by the indices(new data) in a given day.
- Counting the number of triggered alerts.

I explored the X-pack APIs and relevant sections of the documentation, but couldn't find out what I am looking for. Could you kindly provide your valuable suggestions/opinions ?

PS: I am a ELK stack neophyte and badly need your(community) help.

Thanks,  
gthm777

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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: [September 14, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch-with-custom-metrics/97485/2 "2017-09-14T20:58:51Z")

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