[[health]]
== Health and Performance Monitoring

* https://github.com/lukas-vlcek/bigdesk[bigdesk]:
  Live charts and statistics for elasticsearch cluster.

* https://github.com/lmenezes/elasticsearch-kopf/[Kopf]:
  Live cluster health and shard allocation monitoring with administration toolset.
  
* https://github.com/karmi/elasticsearch-paramedic[paramedic]:
  Live charts with cluster stats and indices/shards information.

* http://www.elastichq.org/[ElasticsearchHQ]:
  Free cluster health monitoring tool

* http://sematext.com/spm/index.html[SPM for Elasticsearch]:
  Performance monitoring with live charts showing cluster and node stats, integrated
  alerts, email reports, etc.

* https://github.com/radu-gheorghe/check-es[check-es]:
  Nagios/Shinken plugins for checking on elasticsearch

* https://github.com/anchor/nagios-plugin-elasticsearch[check_elasticsearch]:
  An Elasticsearch availability and performance monitoring plugin for
  Nagios.

* https://github.com/rbramley/Opsview-elasticsearch[opsview-elasticsearch]:
  Opsview plugin written in Perl for monitoring Elasticsearch

* https://github.com/polyfractal/elasticsearch-segmentspy[SegmentSpy]:
  Plugin to watch Lucene segment merges across your cluster

* https://github.com/mattweber/es2graphite[es2graphite]:
  Send cluster and indices stats and status to Graphite for monitoring and graphing.
  
* https://scoutapp.com[Scout]: Provides plugins for monitoring Elasticsearch https://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/1331-elasticsearch-node-status[nodes], https://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/1321-elasticsearch-cluster-status[clusters], and https://scoutapp.com/plugin_urls/1341-elasticsearch-index-status[indices].