I've setup an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack and created some Kibana dashboard widgets. So far everything went amazing. Now I want to send daily and weekly email with the generated reports.
What is the best way to do that. Do I need to install any plugin or I can sent it right from Kibana?
You can use ElastAlert. You will be able to mail a link with the Kibana dashboard with only the data of the period you want. The period parameter in the top right corner will be set automatically in Kibana.
There are some workarounds, such as phantomjs but not straightforward to implement. For specific events and Kibana queries there are alerting mechanisms available (Watcher, Logz.io), but I'm guessing you're looking to receive the entire dashboard by email.
There are two out-of-the box options for sending email reports from Kibana dashboard:
Skedler which allows you to schedule and send automated email reports based on your Kibana dashboard or search.
If you have Elasticsearch license/subscription, then you can use the reporting plugin.
Hope it helps.
You can use Sentinl that extends Kibana for Alerting and Reporting functionality to monitor, notify and report on data series changes using standard queries, programmable validators and a variety of configurable actions - Think of it as a free an independent "Watcher" which also has scheduled "Reporting" capabilities (PNG/PDFs snapshots).
The greatest thing about Sentinl is you can easily configure alerts through it's native App interface integrated in Kibana.
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I am a newbie in Elastic in general and currently I am trying to manage our alerts for CPU/Disk/Memory in Elastic Cloud. I can create the alerts manually just fine, but that takes a huge amount of time and if we migrate I want to be able to create the alerts in some automated way. In the past I have worked with Azure and created alerts with Az PowerShell and etc, so I am searching how to automate the alert creation for our infrastructure in Elastic Cloud. I went through the documentation for Alerts Link. But, im not sure I understand how to use the API to actually do this.
Is there a way to automate lets say creation of CPU alerts for 10 different hosts that we monitor with Elastic ? Is using the API the only way and are there any materials other than the official documentation that can help me achieve this? And am I even on the correct path? Thank you in advance.
Let me share knowledge of using Azure Monitor where you can connects the resources to Azure Monitor and manage the Alerts. Alerts can send you an email or call a web hook when some metric (for example database size or CPU usage) reaches the threshold. There are several ways to create Alerts- using Azure Portal, Command Line Interface, Powershell and Azure Monitor Rest API. Hope it will help you.
Even you can automate alerts using Azure Automation runbook with Mertic Alerts. where can automate the alerts according to the customized dimensional values and once the Alert criteria met it can even send an mail.
I need to send email automatically whenever any error comes in my Elastic search.
Is there anyway to do it.
I dont want to use Elastic Cloud for it.
I can use Watcher in Kibana, but my question is whether the "Watcher" is available in local also along with cloud?
Please help!
Watcher is available in on-premises installations if you have at least a Gold License, it is not available with the free basic license.
The same thing for the Kibana e-mail action, it needs a Gold License.
You can check what is available at the subscription page.
If you do not have a Gold License for your on-premises cluster, you will need an external tool to query elasticsearch and send e-mails, you can build one using one of the official clients libraries (python, node.js, java etc) or you can try other tools like elastalert.
I have a server stats.hostname with graphite + grafana. This is receiving some stats about geolocation from several clients. I want to know if there is some plugin/extension/external tool for alert (email) when this stats overpass some threshold.
I tried with worldPing, but I think the tool is only for checking is a site is reachable or not.
Can you suggest some solution?
Thanks!
Alerting is probably one of the most requested features of Grafana. The team at Raintank are building an alerting system on top of Grafana. You can follow the progress and the discussion here - https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209
Currently though, you can use Bosun for your alerting needs. - https://bosun.org/quickstart#graphite
It does have Graphite querying capabilities, and there's a Bosun Datasource for Grafana as well.
Alerting in grafana is available since release 4.0 from dec 2016
http://grafana.org/blog/2016/12/12/grafana-4.0-stable-release/
Currently v. 4.0.2 is available http://grafana.org/download/ for donwload.
we are using zabbix monitoring tool to monitor server health. can we also add some custom dashboard in zabbix where I can add some custom monitoring measure like no of people login to my application, no of order made etc to display in that dashboard as I have only one screen where I can display a dashboard or zabbix monitoring tool
The concept is called screen in Zabbix and as the manual suggests, you can also add data retrieved from a custom URL, when using the Resource URL.
Not sure, however, how well this works in practice and if it's retrieved from the client or server side.
I know Kibana 4 itself does not have alerting and taking action on specific conditions, but I would really want to use Kibana, but also have a way of taking automatic actions or sending alerts if something is not behaving correctly. Are there any solutions or tools that work well together. Currently I am using cloudwatch, elastic search services in AWS. Would all the alerts and actions have to be setup separately in cloudwatch. Maybe I could have kibana generate something on which I could take action, like read from a queue to which kibana sends json alerts or something of that nature?
ElastAlert looks like an interesting tool. You can define conditions and get alerts as emails or to Slack etc.
If you have data being written into Elasticsearch in near real time
and want to be alerted when that data matches certain patterns,
ElastAlert is the tool for you. If you can see it in Kibana,
ElastAlert can alert on it.