# Uptime Monitoring without external pings
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-without-external-pings/218840
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 11, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-without-external-pings/218840 "2020-02-11T18:38:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Nico\_Duldhardt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nico_Duldhardt)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-without-external-pings/218840/1 "2020-02-11T18:38:35Z")
Hello everybody,
is there another solution to monitor the uptime of several (\> 100) machines when I cannot externally ping them? I assume heartbeat won't work then? I tried to count the logs of each machine. However, this way I don't notice missing machines that did not log.
I am using a hosted deployment of the elastic stack in the elastic cloud.
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### Author:  [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-without-external-pings/218840/2 "2020-02-11T20:03:49Z")
Hi @Nico_Duldhardt,
maybe you could activate [monitoring](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-enable-monitoring.html#ec-monitoring-production) if didn't already do so on your cluster and then use a [Watcher](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-watcher.html) to notify you once a node goes down?
See n example of this [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/watch-cluster-status.html). I'm sure you could adapt that to exactly fit your needs and maybe just amen sure that the cluster is at an exact machine count for example?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-without-external-pings/218840/3 "2020-03-10T20:03:51Z")
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