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[[xpack-monitoring]]
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= Monitoring the Elastic Stack
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[partintro]
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The {monitoring} components enable you to easily monitor the Elastic Stack
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from {kibana-ref}/introduction.html[Kibana].
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You can view health and performance data for {es}, Logstash, and {kib} in real
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time, as well as analyze past performance.
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A monitoring agent runs on each {es}, {kib}, and Logstash instance to collect
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and index metrics.
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By default, metrics are indexed within the cluster you are monitoring.
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Setting up a dedicated monitoring cluster ensures you can access historical
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monitoring data even if the cluster you're
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monitoring goes down. It also enables you to monitor multiple clusters
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from a central location.
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When you use a dedicated monitoring cluster, the metrics collected by the
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Logstash and Kibana monitoring agents are shipped to the Elasticsearch
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cluster you're monitoring, which then forwards all of the metrics to
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the monitoring cluster.
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//
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// image:monitoring-architecture.png["Monitoring Architecture",link="images/monitoring-architecture.png"]
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--
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include::getting-started.asciidoc[]
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