July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
3h 16m
English
Bigdesk is a tool to look into various JVM and operating-system level metrics about your cluster. If your cluster runs slowly or experiences unusual errors, Bigdesk is a good place to check for anything out of the ordinary.
After following the installation instructions from the previous chapter, access Bigdesk by visiting http://elasticsearch-node-01:9200/plugin/bigdesk/. The initial landing page looks like this:

Like Elasticsearch-head, this page shows the nodes in your cluster and the cluster health. Click on any of the nodes listed in the top row to display its individual metrics:
In this screenshot, we selected elasticsearch-node-02 and ...
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