Helm-charts: monitore elasticsearch cluster with metricbeat

[ebuildy]

Describe the feature:

Some Helm charts, provide monitoring with the application, (the most famous is "prometheus exporter"). By example, https://github.com/bitnami/charts/tree/master/bitnami/elasticsearch .

Since elastic has a product metricbeat , what about to propose a metricbeat instance as cluster side

Describe a specific use case for the feature:

Monitore ES cluster in production.

[jmlrt]

Hi @ebuildy,
It is possible and recommended to deploy Metricbeat chart to monitor Elasticsearch chart chart.

[ebuildy]

Yes I understand,

Most of Helm charts, have monitoring defined as template , via servicemonitor.yaml: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/blob/master/bitnami/elasticsearch/templates/servicemonitor.yaml.

Will be good to have a similar thing with metricbeat.

[cambierr]

Shouldn't we instead have a companion container for each es pod ? so that they are each collected independently ?

[jmlrt]

Shouldn't we instead have a companion container for each es pod ? so that they are each collected independently ?

This is not required and not recommended.

You should use Metricbeat deployment pod in Metricbeat chart with Elasticsearch module to monitor Elasticsearch.

Actually unlike with Prometheus, we don't need anything into Elasticsearch chart for that.

The only thing you need is to add the following config into Metricbeat values:

deployment:
  metricbeatConfig:
    metricbeat.yml: |
      metricbeat.modules:
      - module: elasticsearch
        metricsets:
          - node
          - node_stats
        period: 10s
        hosts: ["elasticsearch-master:9200"]

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