February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
12h 24m
English
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:
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