# How to monitor opendistro ES cluster without xpack and within kibana

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-monitor-opendistro-es-cluster-without-xpack-and-within-kibana/7035>\
**Category:** Alerting\
**Tags:** discuss\
**Created:** [September 16, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-monitor-opendistro-es-cluster-without-xpack-and-within-kibana/7035 "2021-09-16T14:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![varma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea5d25/32.png) [@varma](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/varma)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-monitor-opendistro-es-cluster-without-xpack-and-within-kibana/7035/1 "2021-09-16T14:12:22Z")

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Hi All,  
I have installed opendistro for ES on vmware with RPM packages, currently we are in UAT now. I have created Dev, SIT and UAT environments for elastic search for our customer. everything is done but i am still facing to setup this monitoring solution for opendistro cluster. kibana is installed and ready for working, but only problem with shipping and monitor cluster.

I have tried with metric beat/x-pack but did not work as x-pack is not compatible to the opendistro, also getting errors while installing the plugins.  
also i have tried marvel, but didn’t work as plugin is not supporting.  
I think filebeat only work for logging not for cluster monitor. so could anyone suggest me which process i have to follow to setup monitoring. or if any free tools availble.

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**Author:** ![jmau2002](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/jmau2002/32/2291_2.png) [@jmau2002](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/jmau2002)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-monitor-opendistro-es-cluster-without-xpack-and-within-kibana/7035/2 "2021-09-17T15:21:02Z")

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there is a long discussion about monitoring on [Cluster monitoring](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/cluster-monitoring/5224)  
Please read it.

I personally still use vvanhole plugin (still on OpenDistro): [GitHub - vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter: Prometheus exporter plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter)

- prometheus +grafana (there is a dashboard somewhere in the code).

There is a fork for OpenSearch: [GitHub - aparo/opensearch-prometheus-exporter: OpenSearch Prometheus Exporter (fork of https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter)](https://github.com/aparo/opensearch-prometheus-exporter)

I know it’s different from the internal monitor screen from Elastic, but I like prometheus for monioring. Including monitoring OpenSearch.

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**Author:** ![tony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@tony](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/tony)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/how-to-monitor-opendistro-es-cluster-without-xpack-and-within-kibana/7035/3 "2021-09-20T15:20:57Z")

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You can use oss beats and ingest into the cluster and create your own alerts and dashboards in kibana. Alternatively create a monitoring cluster and send all beats from your environments into there and create your dashboards and alerts for all clusters.