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[[es-monitoring-overview]]
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== Monitoring Overview
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<titleabbrev>Overview</titleabbrev>
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{es} is at the core of the {monitoring}. In all cases, {monitoring} documents
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are just ordinary JSON documents built by monitoring each Elastic Stack
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component at some collection interval (`10s` by default), then indexing those
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documents into the monitoring cluster. Each component in the stack is
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responsible for monitoring itself and then forwarding those documents to {es}
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for both routing and indexing (storage).
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For {es}, this process is handled by what are called
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<<es-monitoring-collectors,collectors>> and
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<<es-monitoring-exporters,exporters>>. In the past, collectors and exporters
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were considered to be part of a monitoring "agent", but that term is generally
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not used anymore.
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All settings associated with {monitoring} in {es} must be set in either the
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`elasticsearch.yml` file for each node or, where possible, in the dynamic
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cluster settings. For more information, see <<monitoring-settings>>.
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include::collectors.asciidoc[]
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include::exporters.asciidoc[]
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