The monitoring console provides a wide range of performance- and capacity-monitoring tools – too many to cover in depth in a book this size, but we'll take a whirlwind tour so you're aware of what you might want to look into further:
- Overview | Triggered Alerts: At the bottom of the Overview page, you can enable various alerts that will inform you of critical issues with indexers, event-processing queues, memory, disk space, license usage, search peers not responding, and missing forwarders. You can edit the thresholds on most of these and, by clicking the Advanced Edit button, the Edit button next to Actions, and then the Add Actions button in the Edit Alert form, you can configure the alert to send you an email ...