3.1.12.1. Stack monitoring

The Stack Monitoring feature allows users to monitor the health, performance, and usage of their Elasticsearch cluster, as well as other components of the Elastic Stack.

Upon first-opening this section, you will see the following view:

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The “Learn more” link displayed in the first view will lead you to the Kibana alerts documentation . The This window suggests using out-of-the-box rules, click on “OK” to accept them proceed to the main view:

The main view features 3 sections:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Kibana

  • Logstash

All views display a common header:

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3.1.12.1.1. Elasticsearch

The Elasticsearch section features four subsections: Overview, Nodes, Indices, and Logs.

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3.1.12.1.1.1. Overview

This view features graphical information displayed in a timeline regarding Search Rate, Sear Latency, Indexing Rate, Indexing Latency, Recent Log Entries and Shard Activity.

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The same view displays the recent log entries and cluster shard activity:

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3.1.12.1.1.2. Nodes

This views features a table regarding Node name, Alerts, Node Status, Roles, Shards, CPU Usage, Load Average, JVM Heap, and Disk Free Space.

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3.1.12.1.1.3. Indices

This views features a table regarding Index name, Alerts, Index Status, Document Count, Data, Index Rate, Search Rate, and Unassigned Shards.

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3.1.12.1.1.4. Ingest pipelines

These metrics require installing the Elasticsearch integration.

3.1.12.1.2. Kibana

The Kibana section features two subsections: Overview and Instances.

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3.1.12.1.2.1. Overview

This view features graphical information displayed in a timeline regarding Client Requests, Client Response Time, Rule Queue, Rule Queue Duration, Action Queue, and Action Queue Duration.

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3.1.12.1.2.2. Kibana Instances

This view features a table displaying information relate to the Kibana Instances: Alerts, Lasts Reported Status, Last Seen, Load Average, Memory Size, Requests, Response Times.

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3.1.12.1.3. Logstash

The Logstash section features three subsections: Overview, Logstash Nodes, and Pipelines.

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3.1.12.1.3.1. Overview

This view features graphical information displayed in a timeline regarding Events Received Rate, Events Emitted Rate, and Event Latency.

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3.1.12.1.3.2. Logstash Nodes

This views features a table for Alerts,CPU Usage, Load Average, JVM Heap Used, Events Ingested, Config Reloads, Version.

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3.1.12.1.3.3. Pipelines

This views features pipelines information: Events Emitted Rate, Number of Nodes.

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