Elasticsearch is an open-source search server, based on the
Lucene search library. It runs in a Java virtual
machine on top of a number of operating systems. The elasticsearch
receiver
collects node- and cluster-level telemetry from your Elasticsearch instances.
For more information about Elasticsearch, see the Elasticsearch documentation.
Prerequisites
To collect Elasticsearch telemetry, you must install the Ops Agent:
- For metrics, install version 2.21.0 or higher.
- For logs, install version 2.9.0 or higher.
This integration supports Elasticsearch version 7.9+.
Configure your Elasticsearch instance
If you enable Elasticsearch security
features,
you must configure a user with the monitor
or manage
cluster
privilege.
Configure the Ops Agent for Elasticsearch
Following the guide to Configure the Ops Agent, add the required elements to collect telemetry from Elasticsearch instances, and restart the agent.
Example configuration
The following commands create the configuration to collect and ingest telemetry for Elasticsearch and restart the Ops Agent.
Configure logs collection
To ingest logs from Elasticsearch, you must create a receiver for the logs that Elasticsearch produces and then create a pipeline for the new receiver.
To configure a receiver for your elasticsearch_json
logs, specify the following
fields:
Field | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
exclude_paths |
A list of filesystem path patterns to exclude from the set matched by include_paths . |
|
include_paths |
[/var/log/elasticsearch/*_server.json, /var/log/elasticsearch/*_deprecation.json, /var/log/elasticsearch/*_index_search_slowlog.json, /var/log/elasticsearch/*_index_indexing_slowlog.json, /var/log/elasticsearch/*_audit.json] |
A list of filesystem paths to read by tailing each file. A wild card (* ) can be used in the paths. |
record_log_file_path |
false |
If set to true , then the path to the specific file from which the log record was obtained appears in the output log entry as the value of the agent.googleapis.com/log_file_path label. When using a wildcard, only the path of the file from which the record was obtained is recorded. |
type |
This value must be elasticsearch_json . |
|
wildcard_refresh_interval |
60s |
The interval at which wildcard file paths in include_paths are refreshed. Given as a time duration, for example 30s or 2m . This property might be useful under high logging throughputs where log files are rotated faster than the default interval. |
To configure a receiver for your elasticsearch_gc
logs, specify the following
fields:
Field | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
exclude_paths |
A list of filesystem path patterns to exclude from the set matched by include_paths . |
|
include_paths |
[/var/log/elasticsearch/gc.log] |
A list of filesystem paths to read by tailing each file. A wild card (* ) can be used in the paths. |
record_log_file_path |
false |
If set to true , then the path to the specific file from which the log record was obtained appears in the output log entry as the value of the agent.googleapis.com/log_file_path label. When using a wildcard, only the path of the file from which the record was obtained is recorded. |
type |
This value must be elasticsearch_gc . |
|
wildcard_refresh_interval |
60s |
The interval at which wildcard file paths in include_paths are refreshed. Given as a time duration, for example 30s or 2m . This property might be useful under high logging throughputs where log files are rotated faster than the default interval. |
What is logged
The logName
is derived from
the receiver IDs specified in the configuration. Detailed fields inside the
LogEntry
are as follows.
The elasticsearch_json
logs contain the following fields in the LogEntry
:
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
jsonPayload.cluster |
string | The cluster emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.cluster.name |
string | The name of the cluster emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.cluster.uuid |
string | The UUID of the cluster emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.component |
string | The component of Elasticsearch that emitted the log |
jsonPayload.level |
string | Log entry level |
jsonPayload.message |
string | Log message |
jsonPayload.node |
string | The node emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.node.name |
string | The name of the node emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.node.uuid |
string | The UUID of the node emitting the log record |
jsonPayload.type |
string | The type of log, indicating which log the record came from (e.g. server indicates this LogEntry came from the server log) |
severity |
string (LogSeverity ) |
Log entry level (translated). |
The elasticsearch_gc
logs contain the following fields in the LogEntry
:
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
jsonPayload.gc_run |
number | The run of the garbage collector |
jsonPayload.message |
string | Log message |
jsonPayload.type |
string | The type of the log record |
severity |
string (LogSeverity ) |
Log entry level (translated). |
Configure metrics collection
To ingest metrics from Elasticsearch, you must create a receiver for the metrics that Elasticsearch produces and then create a pipeline for the new receiver.
This receiver does not support the use of multiple instances in the configuration, for example, to monitor multiple endpoints. All such instances write to the same time series, and Cloud Monitoring has no way to distinguish among them.
To configure a receiver for your elasticsearch
metrics, specify the following
fields:
Field | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
ca_file |
Path to the CA certificate. As a client, this verifies the server certificate. If empty, the receiver uses the system root CA. | |
cert_file |
Path to the TLS certificate to use for mTLS-required connections. | |
collection_interval |
60s |
A time duration value, such as 30s or 5m . |
endpoint |
http://localhost:92002 |
The base URL for the Elasticsearch REST API. |
insecure |
true |
Sets whether or not to use a secure TLS connection. If set to false , then TLS is enabled. |
insecure_skip_verify |
false |
Sets whether or not to skip verifying the certificate. If insecure is set to true , then the insecure_skip_verify value is not used. |
key_file |
Path to the TLS key to use for mTLS-required connections. | |
password |
Password for authentication with Elasticsearch. Required if username is set. |
|
type |
This value must be elasticsearch . |
|
username |
Username for authentication with Elasticsearch. Required if password is set. |
What is monitored
The following table provides the list of metrics that the Ops Agent collects from the Elasticsearch instance.
Metric type | |
---|---|
Kind, Type Monitored resources |
Labels |
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.breaker.memory.estimated
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.breaker.memory.limit
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.breaker.tripped
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.data_nodes
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.health
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
status
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.in_flight_fetch
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.nodes
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.pending_tasks
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.published_states.differences
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.published_states.full
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.shards
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.state_queue
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.state_update.count
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.cluster.state_update.time
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
state type
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.indexing_pressure.memory.limit
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.indexing_pressure.memory.total.primary_rejections
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.indexing_pressure.memory.total.replica_rejections
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.memory.indexing_pressure
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
stage
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.cache.count
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
type
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.cache.evictions
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
cache_name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.cache.memory.usage
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
cache_name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.cluster.connections
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.cluster.io
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
direction
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.disk.io.read
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.disk.io.write
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.documents
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.fs.disk.available
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.fs.disk.free
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.fs.disk.total
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.http.connections
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.ingest.documents
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.ingest.documents.current
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.ingest.operations.failed
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.open_files
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.operations.completed
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
operation
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.operations.time
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
operation
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.pipeline.ingest.documents.current
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.pipeline.ingest.documents.preprocessed
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.pipeline.ingest.operations.failed
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.script.cache_evictions
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.script.compilation_limit_triggered
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.script.compilations
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.shards.data_set.size
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.shards.reserved.size
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.shards.size
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.thread_pool.tasks.finished
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
state thread_pool_name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.thread_pool.tasks.queued
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
thread_pool_name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.thread_pool.threads
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state thread_pool_name
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.translog.operations
|
|
CUMULATIVE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.translog.size
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.translog.uncommitted.size
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.os.cpu.load_avg.15m
|
|
GAUGE , DOUBLE gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.os.cpu.load_avg.1m
|
|
GAUGE , DOUBLE gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.os.cpu.load_avg.5m
|
|
GAUGE , DOUBLE gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.os.cpu.usage
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
|
workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.os.memory
|
|
GAUGE , INT64 gce_instance |
state
|
Verify the configuration
This section describes how to verify that you correctly configured the Elasticsearch receiver. It might take one or two minutes for the Ops Agent to begin collecting telemetry.
To verify that Elasticsearch logs are being sent to Cloud Logging, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Logs Explorer page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Logging.
- Enter the following query in the editor, and then click Run query:
resource.type="gce_instance" (log_id("elasticsearch_json") OR log_id("elasticsearch_gc"))
To verify that Elasticsearch metrics are being sent to Cloud Monitoring, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the leaderboard Metrics explorer page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- In the toolbar of the query-builder pane, select the button whose name is either code MQL or code PromQL.
- Verify that MQL is selected in the Language toggle. The language toggle is in the same toolbar that lets you format your query.
- Enter the following query in the editor, and then click Run query:
fetch gce_instance | metric 'workload.googleapis.com/elasticsearch.node.open_files' | every 1m
View dashboard
To view your Elasticsearch metrics, you must have a chart or dashboard configured. The Elasticsearch integration includes one or more dashboards for you. Any dashboards are automatically installed after you configure the integration and the Ops Agent has begun collecting metric data.
You can also view static previews of dashboards without installing the integration.
To view an installed dashboard, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Dashboards page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Select the Dashboard List tab, and then choose the Integrations category.
- Click the name of the dashboard you want to view.
If you have configured an integration but the dashboard has not been installed, then check that the Ops Agent is running. When there is no metric data for a chart in the dashboard, installation of the dashboard fails. After the Ops Agent begins collecting metrics, the dashboard is installed for you.
To view a static preview of the dashboard, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Integrations page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Click the Compute Engine deployment-platform filter.
- Locate the entry for Elasticsearch and click View Details.
- Select the Dashboards tab to see a static preview. If the dashboard is installed, then you can navigate to it by clicking View dashboard.
For more information about dashboards in Cloud Monitoring, see Dashboards and charts.
For more information about using the Integrations page, see Manage integrations.
Install alerting policies
Alerting policies instruct Cloud Monitoring to notify you when specified conditions occur. The Elasticsearch integration includes one or more alerting policies for you to use. You can view and install these alerting policies from the Integrations page in Monitoring.
To view the descriptions of available alerting policies and install them, do the following:
-
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Integrations page:
If you use the search bar to find this page, then select the result whose subheading is Monitoring.
- Locate the entry for Elasticsearch and click View Details.
- Select the Alerts tab. This tab provides descriptions of available alerting policies and provides an interface for installing them.
- Install alerting policies. Alerting policies need
to know where to send notifications that the alert has been
triggered, so they require information from you for installation.
To install alerting policies, do the following:
- From the list of available alerting policies, select those that you want to install.
In the Configure notifications section, select one or more notification channels. You have the option to disable the use of notification channels, but if you do, then your alerting policies fire silently. You can check their status in Monitoring, but you receive no notifications.
For more information about notification channels, see Manage notification channels.
- Click Create Policies.
For more information about alerting policies in Cloud Monitoring, see Introduction to alerting.
For more information about using the Integrations page, see Manage integrations.
What's next
For a walkthrough on how to use Ansible to install the Ops Agent, configure a third-party application, and install a sample dashboard, see the Install the Ops Agent to troubleshoot third-party applications video.