# Monitoring elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 29, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160 "2013-10-29T21:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mohit\_Anchlia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Mohit\_Anchlia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohit_Anchlia)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/1 "2013-10-29T21:04:08Z")
What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on the web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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:** [October 29, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/2 "2013-10-29T21:36:53Z")
Head, Elastic HQ, Paramedic, Bigdesk and SPM are probably the main ones you will see mentioned here. Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) On 30 October 2013 08:04, Mohit Anchlia [mohitanchlia@gmail.com](mailto:mohitanchlia@gmail.com) wrote: > What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on the > web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Maher\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/daniel_maher_3/32/2014_2.png) [@Daniel\_Maher\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Maher_3)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/3 "2013-10-30T15:12:10Z")
On 10/29/2013, 22:04, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on > the web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. Not quite sure what you're looking for exactly, but if you're monitoring via Nagios, you may be interested in the check\_http\_json plugin, which was originally designed with Elasticsearch in mind. > **[GitHub - phrawzty/check\_http\_json: Nagios plugin to parse JSON from an HTTP...](https://github.com/phrawzty/check_http_json/)** > > Nagios plugin to parse JSON from an HTTP response. - GitHub - phrawzty/check\_http\_json: Nagios plugin to parse JSON from an HTTP response. -- dan (phrawzty). mozilla webops; european outpost. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Ortiz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike_ortiz/32/1996_2.png) [@Mike\_Ortiz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike_Ortiz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/4 "2013-11-05T07:20:36Z")
I second head, paramedia, and bigdesk for real-time monitoring. If you're looking to do monitoring with alerting, I'd recommend [GitHub - anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch: An ElasticSearch availability and performance monitoring plugin for Nagios](https://github.com/anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch). On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:36:53 PM UTC-7, Mark Walkom wrote: > Head, Elastic HQ, Paramedic, Bigdesk and SPM are probably the main ones > you will see mentioned here. > > Regards, > Mark Walkom > > Infrastructure Engineer > Campaign Monitor > email: [ma...@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:ma...@campaignmonitor.com) \ > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) > > On 30 October 2013 08:04, Mohit Anchlia \<[mohita...@gmail.com](mailto:mohita...@gmail.com) \ > > > wrote: > > > What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on > > the web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Ortiz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike_ortiz/32/1996_2.png) [@Mike\_Ortiz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike_Ortiz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/5 "2013-11-05T07:24:02Z")
I second head, paramedic, and bigdesk for real-time monitoring. If you're looking to do monitoring with alerting, I'd recommend [GitHub - anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch: An ElasticSearch availability and performance monitoring plugin for Nagios](https://github.com/anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch). On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:36:53 PM UTC-7, Mark Walkom wrote: > Head, Elastic HQ, Paramedic, Bigdesk and SPM are probably the main ones > you will see mentioned here. > > Regards, > Mark Walkom > > Infrastructure Engineer > Campaign Monitor > email: [ma...@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:ma...@campaignmonitor.com) \ > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) > > On 30 October 2013 08:04, Mohit Anchlia \<[mohita...@gmail.com](mailto:mohita...@gmail.com) \ > > > wrote: > > > What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on > > the web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/6 "2013-11-05T13:26:32Z")
We use Ganglia for metrics ( [http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?c=Miscellaneous%20eqiad&h=testsearch1002.eqiad.wmnet&m=cpu\_report&r=hour&s=descending&hc=4&mc=2](http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?c=Miscellaneous%20eqiad&h=testsearch1002.eqiad.wmnet&m=cpu_report&r=hour&s=descending&hc=4&mc=2)) and Nagios/Icinga for alerting ([Login - Wikimedia Developer Single Sign On](https://icinga.wikimedia.org/icinga/)). I believe we use [https://github.com/anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearchunmodified](https://github.com/anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearchunmodified) for monitoring and we use a modified version of [https://github.com/ganglia/gmond\_python\_modules/tree/master/elasticsearchfor](https://github.com/ganglia/gmond_python_modules/tree/master/elasticsearchfor) which is here: [elasticsearch\_monitoring.py ยท operations-puppet](http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fpuppet.git/fd8c5a98f7bc03191fb73f3da00a9a20f4f540a1/modules%2Felasticsearch%2Ffiles%2Fganglia%2Felasticsearch_monitoring.py). If you do look at the ganglia metrics please ignore the unchanging metrics. They are from a broken version of the script and it isn't worth my time to remove them because we'll be replacing the servers in a week any way. Nik On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:24 AM, Mike Ortiz [ortizmj12@gmail.com](mailto:ortizmj12@gmail.com) wrote: > I second head, paramedic, and bigdesk for real-time monitoring. If you're > looking to do monitoring with alerting, I'd recommend [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) > anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch. > > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 2:36:53 PM UTC-7, Mark Walkom wrote: > > > Head, Elastic HQ, Paramedic, Bigdesk and SPM are probably the main ones > > you will see mentioned here. > > > > Regards, > > Mark Walkom > > > > Infrastructure Engineer > > Campaign Monitor > > email: [ma...@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:ma...@campaignmonitor.com) > > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) > > > > On 30 October 2013 08:04, Mohit Anchlia [mohita...@gmail.com](mailto:mohita...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > What tools are generally used to monitor elasticsearch? I found few on > > > the web but it would be good to see which one is more preferred. > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > > an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > > > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elasticsearch/14160/7 "2017-07-06T02:08:51Z")