Kibana Alerts

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The Elastic Stack monitoring features provide Kibana alerts out-of-the box to notify you of potential issues in the Elastic Stack. These alerts are preconfigured based on the best practices recommended by Elastic. However, you can tailor them to meet your specific needs.

When you open Stack Monitoring, the preconfigured Kibana alerts are created automatically. If you collect monitoring data from multiple clusters, these alerts can search, detect, and notify on various conditions across the clusters. The alerts are visible alongside your existing Watcher cluster alerts. You can view details about the alerts that are active and view health and performance data for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Beats in real time, as well as analyze past performance. You can also modify active alerts.

Kibana alerts in the Stack Monitoring app

To review and modify all the available alerts, use Alerts and Actions in Stack Management.

CPU threshold

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This alert is triggered when a node runs a consistently high CPU load. By default, the trigger condition is set at 85% or more averaged over the last 5 minutes. The alert is grouped across all the nodes of the cluster by running checks on a schedule time of 1 minute with a re-notify internal of 1 day.

Some action types are subscription features, while others are free. For a comparison of the Elastic subscription levels, see the alerting section of the Subscriptions page.