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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook
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X-Pack provides cluster functionalities that allows to control and monitor your nodes and cluster. This is a very useful component of X-Pack as it is the lifesaver on large installations.
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
You also need a functional Kibana installation as described in the Installing Kibana and X-Pack recipe.
Monitor plugin (X-Pack) must be installed in every Elasticsearch node of the cluster, to be able to correctly collect the data metrics.
To use X-Pack Elasticsearch monitor, we will perform the following steps:
We access the Monitoring section of Kibana as shown in the following screenshot:
In the main page, you can access the different sections on monitoring applications as shown in the following screenshot:
If you click on the Overview cluster, you are able to see global cluster status and statistics...
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