- Kibana Guide: other versions:
- Introduction
- Set Up Kibana
- Breaking Changes
- Getting Started
- Discover
- Visualize
- Dashboard
- Timelion
- Machine Learning
- APM
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Dev Tools
- Monitoring
- Management
- Reporting from Kibana
- REST API
- Kibana Plugins
- Contributing to Kibana
- Limitations
- Release Highlights
- Release Notes
- Kibana 6.4.3
- Kibana 6.4.2
- Kibana 6.4.1
- Kibana 6.4.0
- Kibana 6.3.2
- Kibana 6.3.1
- Kibana 6.3.0
- Kibana 6.2.4
- Kibana 6.2.3
- Kibana 6.2.2
- Kibana 6.2.1
- Kibana 6.2.0
- Kibana 6.1.4
- Kibana 6.1.3
- Kibana 6.1.2
- Kibana 6.1.1
- Kibana 6.1.0
- Kibana 6.0.1
- Kibana 6.0.0
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc2
- Kibana 6.0.0-rc1
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta2
- Kibana 6.0.0-beta1
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha2
- Kibana 6.0.0-alpha1
Getting Started
editGetting Started
editTo use the Watcher UI, you need to create users with Watcher specific roles as described here.
To access Watcher UI within Kibana:
-
Open Kibana in your web browser and log in. If you are running Kibana
locally, go to
http://localhost:5601/
. -
Click Management in the side navigation, then select Watcher under
Elasticsearch
.
The watch list page within Watcher UI enables you to view all existing watches including stateful information about each watch. This includes State
, Last Fired
and Last Triggered
.
The possible states for watches are:
-
Firing
- The watch is currently triggered and is actively performing the associated actions. -
Error
- The watch is an error state and not properly working. -
Ok
- The watch is not actively firing but working properly. -
Disabled
- The watch will not fire under any circumstance.
To delete or edit a watch, click on its checkbox in the list and then click the Delete or Edit button. Watches that do not have a checkbox are cluster alerts created by X-Pack monitoring and are immutable.
This page also allows you to create a threshold alert or an advanced watch. Let’s first look at creating a threshold alert.