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Elasticsearch Exporter

Prometheus exporter for Elasticsearch cluster metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 2.1k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

Elasticsearch Exporter queries an Elasticsearch cluster and exposes node, index, shard, and cluster health statistics as Prometheus metrics. It enables monitoring of Elasticsearch clusters without proprietary monitoring add-ons.

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Key features

  • Cluster and node health metrics
  • Per-index statistics
  • Shard allocation tracking
  • Prometheus community maintained

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Avoids proprietary monitoring
  • Broad metric coverage

Trade-offs

  • No UI included
  • Verbose metrics on large clusters

Elasticsearch Exporter replaces

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