ELK Stack – Monitor elastic nodes using cerebro

One of the most often asked question about the ELK stack is how can i monitor the elastic nodes itself. Monitoring the nodes here includes all indexes, all the data nodes, index size, total index size, etc. One tool that i use for my implementations is Cerebro.

The open source cerebro application works well with ELK stack 5.x version. The source and build information is

https://github.com/lmenezes/cerebro

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Installation

Installation is as simple as

  • Download release version
  • Extract the files
  • Execute bin/cerebro or cerebro.bat for windows
  • Open http://localhost:3000 in a browser to monitor nodes

Release versions can be found at https://github.com/lmenezes/cerebro/releases

The following screen grabs are from 0.6.1 version of Cerebro.

Hosts screen

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 Main Screen

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Main menu

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Cluster settings

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Index Templates

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Analyze fields in index

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Repositories

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Create new repository

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Delete Repository

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Snapshots

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Create snapshot

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Delete snapshot

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