# Most used/useful plugins for ElasticSearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 30, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562 "2016-01-30T16:42:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Sundar\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sundar_V)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/1 "2016-01-30T16:42:12Z")
What would be some of the most used/useful plugins of ElasticSearch.
I see that some plugins do not yet support 2.x ES. At least for [segmentspy](https://github.com/polyfractal/elasticsearch-segmentspy), [inquisitor](https://github.com/polyfractal/elasticsearch-inquisitor) I don’t see a 2.x support in their github repos.
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### Author:  [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/2 "2016-01-30T17:27:32Z")
I wonder if Bigdesk is considered a useful tool for Performance monitoring.
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### Author:  [@Sundar\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sundar_V)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/3 "2016-01-30T18:07:15Z")
> [@anhlqn](#):
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> Bigdesk
It looks promising. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support ES 2.x. There is already an issue logged for the same:
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> \-\> Installing lukas-vlcek/bigdesk...
> Trying https://github.com/lukas-vlcek/bigde…sk/archive/master.zip ...
> Downloading .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................DONE
> Verifying https://github.com/lukas-vlcek/bigdesk/archive/master.zip checksums if available ...
> NOTE: Unable to verify checksum for downloaded plugin (unable to find .sha1 or .md5 file to verify)
> ERROR: Could not find plugin descriptor 'plugin-descriptor.properties' in plugin zip
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> i find it's a bug from the issues, hope it will be compatible soon
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### Author:  [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/4 "2016-01-30T18:59:56Z")
Yup, I think it supports up to 1.3.x or 1.7.x. Really like Bigdesk though.
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### Author:  [@Geunmoon\_Oh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geunmoon_Oh)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/5 "2016-02-01T06:59:20Z")
i think HQ is also good tool for monitoring, management
And 2.x ES is supported..
> **[ElasticHQ/elasticsearch-HQ](https://github.com/ElasticHQ/elasticsearch-HQ)**
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> elasticsearch-HQ - Monitoring and Management Web Application for ElasticSearch instances and clusters.
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### Author:  [@anhlqn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anhlqn)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/6 "2016-02-04T08:15:34Z")
Yes, it is. But for some reasons I don't see any number in the GC part of Node Diagnostics
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/most-used-useful-plugins-for-elasticsearch/40562/7 "2017-07-05T23:19:00Z")