It can be a very complicated thing to measure the health of or troubleshoot distributed systems. There are a lot of moving pieces when it comes to data infrastructure. Thankfully, Elasticsearch simplifies this problem by baking in monitoring capabilities for the entire Elastic Stack. In this hands-on lab, we will demonstrate how to setup self-monitoring for an Elasticsearch cluster.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Enable the collection of monitoring data.
Use the Kibana console tool to execute the following:
PUT _cluster/settings { "persistent": { "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": true } }
- Explore the Monitoring data in Kibana.
From Kibana, navigate to the "Stack Monitoring" application and explore the monitoring data.