# Monitoring

* Plug-ins from Elastic.co and from third parties: Marvel, ElasticSearchHQ, BigDesk, others&#x20;
* Since everything in ElasticSearch is RESTFul Api: may choose to build own monitoring
* Aws offers dashboards to monitor EC2 instances and Paas/Daas
* Azure offers monitoring tools
* [DataDog is $15/node monitoring](https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/)
* [OpsView monitoring for on/off premises instances](https://www.opsview.com/opspack-marketplace/application-elasticsearch)
