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Enable Elasticsearch Cluster Monitoring

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.

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Jul 17, 2020

Challenge

Enable the collection of monitoring data.
Use the Kibana console tool to execute the following:
```
PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": true
  }
}
```
Challenge

Explore the Monitoring data in Kibana.

From Kibana, navigate to the "Stack Monitoring" application and explore the monitoring data.

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A Cloud Guru

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