# Monitoring ELK stack -- best practices: how to monitor "flow activity" for the beats and logstash (filter)?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elk-stack-best-practices-how-to-monitor-flow-activity-for-the-beats-and-logstash-filter/61668>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [September 28, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elk-stack-best-practices-how-to-monitor-flow-activity-for-the-beats-and-logstash-filter/61668 "2016-09-28T07:35:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elk-stack-best-practices-how-to-monitor-flow-activity-for-the-beats-and-logstash-filter/61668/1 "2016-09-28T07:35:48Z")

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Dear All, I'm wondering what are the best practices to monitor my Elastic Stack (beat, redis, logstash, Elasticsearch) health and activity. Therefore, I would be happy to hear your experience on this topic.

So far, I'm planning to monitor the hosts and services (linux) with centreon; the elasticsearch health and activity with Marvel Plugin; but for the beats and logstash (filter) I don't have a clue about what is the best solution to monitor the "Flow Activity".

Thansk in advance for you replies.  
kr,  
O.

- Monitor ElasticSearch cluster and Activity:  
Use Marvel PLugin  
scheduled task to run Elasticsearch queries periodically and take action based on the result.

- Monitor Logstash Activity:  
monitor messages consumption (filtering, sending)  
what about: "logstash pulse": [https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-check-logstashs-pulse](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-check-logstashs-pulse) , [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-heartbeat](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-heartbeat)

- Monitor Beats Activity:

- Monitor Redis Activiy:  
monitor messages consumption  
what about: "redisbeat" : [https://www.elastic.co/blog/weekly-beats-redisbeat-community](https://www.elastic.co/blog/weekly-beats-redisbeat-community)

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-elk-stack-best-practices-how-to-monitor-flow-activity-for-the-beats-and-logstash-filter/61668/2 "2017-07-06T13:43:35Z")

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