# What's the best way to monitor health of Kibana nodes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-best-way-to-monitor-health-of-kibana-nodes/124173>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-best-way-to-monitor-health-of-kibana-nodes/124173 "2018-03-15T20:22:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![zachy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9d8465/32.png) [@zachy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zachy)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-best-way-to-monitor-health-of-kibana-nodes/124173/1 "2018-03-15T20:22:19Z")

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Typically, we use DataDog to monitor the health of our nodes (Elasticsearch and Logstash)

After some research it doesnt seem like there are any metrics that Kibana has that we can monitor using Datadog.

What's the best alternative to monitor the health of my Kibana nodes?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-best-way-to-monitor-health-of-kibana-nodes/124173/2 "2018-03-15T20:52:46Z")

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Hi there,  
If you are already using Datadog, you should query the kibana status API directly to get the instance status- which is :

`localhost:5601/api/status`  
when I did this on my local instance I got :

```auto
{"name":"MacBook-Pro-10.local","uuid":"5b2de169-2785-441b-ae8c-186a1936b17d","version":{"number":"7.0.0-alpha1","build_hash":"6cb7fec4e154faa0a4a3fee4b33dfef91b9870d9","build_number":8467,"build_snapshot":false},"status":{"overall":{"state":"green","title":"Green","nickname":"Looking good","icon":"success","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:42.052Z"},"statuses":[{"id":"plugin:kibana@7.0.0-alpha1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:42.052Z"},{"id":"plugin:elasticsearch@7.0.0-alpha1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:45.092Z"},{"id":"plugin:timelion@7.0.0-alpha1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:44.976Z"},{"id":"plugin:console@7.0.0-alpha1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:44.983Z"},{"id":"plugin:metrics@7.0.0-alpha1","state":"green","icon":"success","message":"Ready","since":"2018-03-14T01:19:44.994Z"}]},"metrics":{"last_updated":"2018-03-15T20:51:48.528Z","collection_interval_in_millis":5000,"uptime_in_millis":70150601,"process":{"mem":{"heap_max_in_bytes":157315072,"heap_used_in_bytes":134899216}},"os":{"cpu":{"load_average":{"1m":3.2724609375,"5m":2.91357421875,"15m":2.8212890625}}},"response_times":{"avg_in_millis":null,"max_in_millis":0},"requests":{"total":0,"disconnects":0,"status_codes":{}},"concurrent_conn

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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:** [April 12, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/whats-the-best-way-to-monitor-health-of-kibana-nodes/124173/3 "2018-04-12T21:00:33Z")

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