Using ElasticHQ to Monitor Elasticsearch

There are a variety of ways to monitor Elasticsearch with PeopleSoft. You can use the Health Center, use the Elasticsearch Interact page, make API calls. But my favorite tool to keep an Elasticsearch is ElasticHQ. ElasticHQ is an open source plugin that you can easily install into Elasticsearch.

There are two ways to install ElasticHQ:

1. Install as Plugin
2. Download .zip

If your Elasticsearch server has access to download from the internet, you can use this command to install the ElasticHQ plugin:

PS C:\psft\elastic\pt\es2.3.3\bin> .\plugin install royrusso/elasticsearch-HQ/v2.0.2

-> Installing royrusso/elasticsearch-HQ/v2.0.2...
https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/royrusso/elasticsearch-HQ/v2.0.2/elasticsear
ch-HQ-v2.0.2.zip 
Trying https://github.com/royrusso/elasticsearch-HQ/archive/v2.0.2.zip 
Downloading ..........................................................
..................................................................DONE
Verifying https://github.com/royrusso/elasticsearch-HQ/archive/v2.0.2.zip checksums if available ...
Installed hq into C:\psft\elastic\pt\es2.3.2\plugins\hq

You need to specify version 2.0.2 for PeopleSoft Elasticsearch. The latest version of the ElasticHQ plugin is designed for newer versions of Elasticsearch, not the version that ships with PeopleSoft.

If your server cannot download from the internet, you can download the .zip file, extract it, and copy to base/pt/es2.3.2/plugins

To access ElasticHQ,

1. Open a web browser and the page http://server:9200/_plugin/hq
2. Log in with the esadmin user
3. Click the “Connect” button to get your Elasticsearch status

If you have an Elasticsearch cluster, ElasticHQ will show you statistics about every node in the cluster.