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Configuring Monitoring
editConfiguring Monitoring
editAdvanced monitoring settings enable you to control how frequently data is collected, configure timeouts, and set the retention period for locally-stored monitoring indices. You can also adjust how monitoring data is displayed. See Monitoring Settings for the complete list of settings you can configure.
Configuring Monitoring’s Indices
editIndex templates are used to configure the indices that store the monitoring data collected from a cluster.
You can retrieve the templates through the _template
API:
GET /_template/.monitoring-*
By default, the template configures one shard and one replica for the monitoring indices. To override the default settings, add your own template:
-
Set the
template
pattern to.monitoring-*
. -
Set the template
order
to1
. This ensures your template is applied after the default template, which has an order of 0. -
Specify the
number_of_shards
and/ornumber_of_replicas
in thesettings
section.
For example, the following template increases the number of shards to five and the number of replicas to two.
PUT /_template/custom_monitoring { "template": ".monitoring-*", "order": 1, "settings": { "number_of_shards": 5, "number_of_replicas": 2 } }
Only set the number_of_shards
and number_of_replicas
in the
settings section. Overriding other monitoring template settings could cause
your monitoring dashboards to stop working correctly.