Monitoring with Kibana

X-Pack provides cluster functionalities that allows to control and monitor your nodes and cluster. This is a very useful component of X-Pack as it is the lifesaver on large installations.

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe.

Note

Monitor plugin (X-Pack) must be installed in every Elasticsearch node of the cluster, to be able to correctly collect the data metrics.

How to do it...

To use X-Pack Elasticsearch monitor, we will perform the following steps:

1. We access the Monitoring section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. In the main page, you can access the different sections on monitoring applications as shown in the following screenshot:

   

3. If you click on the Overview cluster, you are able to see global cluster status and statistics...