# Monitoring services by elastic stack
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939 "2019-09-18T07:43:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@zmira\_meriem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zmira_meriem)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/1 "2019-09-18T07:43:54Z")
hi plz some can help me:
how can i monito services by elastic for example to monitor status of service if service like (httpd or mysql ) is up or down????
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/2 "2019-09-18T17:17:47Z")
Have a look at heartbeat and Kibana Uptime application.
In short, start elasticsearch, start Kibana, go to Kibana frontpage and follow the instructions...
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### Author:  [@zmira\_meriem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zmira_meriem)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/3 "2019-09-19T10:27:48Z")
@dadoonet thnx for u r reply....plz can u explain more bcz in uptime i have just URLS wich i monitor
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/4 "2019-09-19T11:50:06Z")
I don't understand what the problem is. Could you clarify and maybe share what you did so far?
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### Author:  [@zmira\_meriem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zmira_meriem)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/5 "2019-09-19T12:13:20Z")
@dadoonet you said to look at uptime application...at uptime i have just URLS wich i monitor but i'am asking about monitoring status services like (mysql or httpd)
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/6 "2019-09-20T21:19:49Z")
Did you configure heartbeat?
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### Author:  [@zmira\_meriem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zmira_meriem)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/7 "2019-09-24T11:14:06Z")
@dadoonet i use heartbeat for pinging Urls,i dont know how can i use it to monitor services like apache and mysql
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/8 "2019-09-24T19:44:49Z")
You can also monitor tcp connections with heartbeat.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-services-by-elastic-stack/199939/9 "2019-10-22T19:44:57Z")
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