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[role="xpack"]
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[[es-monitoring]]
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= Monitoring {es}
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[partintro]
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--
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{monitoring} enables you to easily monitor the health of your {es} cluster. The
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monitoring metrics are collected from each node and stored in {es} indices.
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Each {es} node is considered unique based on its persistent UUID, which is
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written on first start to its <<path-settings,`path.data`>> directory, which
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defaults to `./data`.
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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 <<configuring-monitoring>>.
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[[es-monitoring-overview]]
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{es} is also at the core of {monitoring} across the Elastic Stack. In all cases,
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{monitoring} documents are just ordinary JSON documents built by monitoring each
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Elastic Stack component at some collection interval, 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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The routing and indexing processes in {es} are 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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You can view monitoring data from {kib} where it’s easy to spot issues at a
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glance or delve into the system behavior over time to diagnose operational
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issues. In addition to the built-in status warnings, you can also set up custom
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alerts based on the data in the monitoring indices.
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For an introduction to monitoring your Elastic stack, including Beats, Logstash,
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and {kib}, see {xpack-ref}/xpack-monitoring.html[Monitoring the Elastic Stack].
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--
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include::collectors.asciidoc[]
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include::exporters.asciidoc[]
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include::pause-export.asciidoc[]
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