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== Management Plugins

Management plugins offer UIs for managing and interacting with Elasticsearch.

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=== Core management plugins

The core management plugins are:

link:/products/x-pack/monitoring[X-Pack]::

X-Pack contains the management and monitoring features for Elasticsearch. It
aggregates cluster wide statistics and events and offers a single interface to
view and analyze them. You can get a link:/subscriptions[free license] for basic
monitoring or a higher level license for more advanced needs.