Monitoring Plug-ins

• ElasticSearch Cluster and Index RESFull Api allowed a lineup of plug-ins

• X-Pack: monitoring and cluster management dashboard by Elastic

• Allows to monitor multiple clusters health, indices, and individual nodes

• Head another commonly mentioned monitoring and management plugin

• Head's user interface is a bit dated but it appears to require no license

• BigDesk comes with more appealing user interface

• BigDesk doesn't appear to require a license and similar to head is open source

• ElasticHQ runs in browser and is connecting to ElasticSearch Api, requires adding cors support to /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml:

  http.cors.allow-origin: "*"
  http.cors.enabled: true

• Keep in mind 3rd party plugins are usually ElasticSearch and Kibana version specific