X-Pack Alerting aka Elasticsearch Watcher can run distributed in a Elasticsearch cluster.
X-Pack Alerting aka Elasticsearch Watcher can run distributed in a Elasticsearch cluster.
Metricbeat as docker container, is a decent monitoring solution to monitor other docker containers in conjunction with Elasticsearch and Kibana. Additionally metricbeat can monitor the docker system itself. You might run into some problems, which I would like to share.
I have two ramp up for two data-centers each a Apache Kafka cluster. Maintaining the cluster with the Kafka Manager GUI by Yahoo is pretty comfortable. Since both data-centers are protected by firewall, a web-proxy must forward it for my remote access.
If you are using X-Pack Monitoring you have a good overview of your Kibana performance. Sometimes it is necessary to know more. Packetbeat can monitor your http traffic between Kibana and the Elasticsearch node.
X-Pack Reporting allows to automate and generate daily reports on pre-existing dashboards or visualizations in Kibana. To keep security tight I have created a reporting user. The first run with the reporting user gave me some mystery. Reporting complained Dashboard with id 'AWLOnWVZLaWygeBEGxLJ' not found. I did some digging and found the reason, which I am going to elaborate about in this post.
Using Python on Windows is not my first choice but if you have to, here are some recipes how to use pip behind a proxy. This post assumes that you are using CNTLM as running proxy.
On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution (via the exit system call) but still has an entry in the process table: it is a process in the “Terminated state”.
Elasticsearch X-Pack Alerting or aka Watcher offers the capability to alert on specific events/constellation in the Elasticsearch data. Watcher can retrieve data from the cluster where it runs (on the master node), or fetch data from Restful Web-Services via the http input. Preferably having a production cluster, you should report the monitoring data to a dedicated Elasticsearch monitoring cluster. This monitoring cluster can also run watches. The watch I’am going to introduce is the cluster health watch.