# URL availability monitoring in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-availability-monitoring-in-kibana/46728>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 7, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-availability-monitoring-in-kibana/46728 "2016-04-07T18:34:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![baxter19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@baxter19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baxter19)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-availability-monitoring-in-kibana/46728/1 "2016-04-07T18:34:53Z")

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Is there a way to configure a url that could be plugged into an availability monitoring solution to check that a particular Kibana instance is online and returning 200 OK? Ideally it would be able to run outside the security constraint if Sheild was enabled on the back end cluster.

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**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, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/url-availability-monitoring-in-kibana/46728/2 "2017-07-06T13:56:36Z")

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