- X-Pack Reference for 6.0-6.2 and 5.x:
- Introduction
- Installing X-Pack
- Migrating to X-Pack
- Breaking Changes
- Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana
- Monitoring the Elastic Stack
- Alerting on Cluster and Index Events
- Reporting from Kibana
- Graphing Connections in Your Data
- Profiling your Queries and Aggregations
- Machine Learning in the Elastic Stack
- X-Pack Settings
- X-Pack APIs
- Info API
- Security APIs
- Watcher APIs
- Graph APIs
- Machine Learning APIs
- Close Jobs
- Create Datafeeds
- Create Jobs
- Delete Datafeeds
- Delete Jobs
- Delete Model Snapshots
- Flush Jobs
- Get Buckets
- Get Categories
- Get Datafeeds
- Get Datafeed Statistics
- Get Influencers
- Get Jobs
- Get Job Statistics
- Get Model Snapshots
- Get Records
- Open Jobs
- Post Data to Jobs
- Preview Datafeeds
- Revert Model Snapshots
- Start Datafeeds
- Stop Datafeeds
- Update Datafeeds
- Update Jobs
- Update Model Snapshots
- Validate Detectors
- Validate Jobs
- Definitions
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
- License Management
- Release Notes
WARNING: Version 5.4 of the Elastic Stack has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Getting Started
editGetting Started
editMonitoring is automatically enabled when you install X-Pack into Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. By default, the monitoring agents on Elasticsearch index data within the same cluster.
If you {xpack-ref}/monitoring-cluster.html[dedicated monitoring cluster], the information is accessible even if the Elasticsearch cluster you’re monitoring is not. You can send data from multiple clusters to the same monitoring cluster and view them all through the same instance of Kibana.
To view and analyze the health and performance of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana:
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Open Kibana in your web browser and log in. If you are running Kibana
locally, go to
http://localhost:5601/. To access Kibana and view the monitoring dashboards, you must log in as a user who has thekibana_userandmonitoring_userroles. - Click Monitoring in the side navigation. This displays any {xpack-ref}/cluster-alerts.html[cluster alerts] that require your attention and a summary of the available monitoring metrics for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. To view additional information, click the Overview, Nodes, Indices, or Instances links.
Watcher must be enabled to view cluster alerts. If you have a Basic license, Top Cluster Alerts are not displayed.