Icinga check plugin to check the health status of an Elasticsearch cluster or the total hits/results of an Elasticsearch query.
Usage:
check_elasticsearch [flags]
check_elasticsearch [command]
Available Commands:
health Checks the health status of an Elasticsearch cluster
query Checks the total hits/results of an Elasticsearch query
Flags:
-H, --hostname string Hostname of the Elasticsearch instance (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTNAME) (default "localhost")
-p, --port int Port of the Elasticsearch instance (default 9200)
-U, --username string Username for HTTP Basic Authentication (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME)
-P, --password string Password for HTTP Basic Authentication (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD)
-S, --tls Use a HTTPS connection
--insecure Skip the verification of the server's TLS certificate
--ca-file string Specify the CA File for TLS authentication (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_CA_FILE)
--cert-file string Specify the Certificate File for TLS authentication (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_CERT_FILE)
--key-file string Specify the Key File for TLS authentication (CHECK_ELASTICSEARCH_KEY_FILE)
-t, --timeout int Timeout in seconds for the CheckPlugin (default 30)
-h, --help help for check_elasticsearch
-v, --version version for check_elasticsearch
The check plugin respects the environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY.
Various flags can be set with environment variables, refer to the help to see which flags.
Checks the health status of an Elasticsearch cluster.
Usage:
check_elasticsearch health
The cluster health status is:
green = OK
yellow = WARNING
red = CRITICAL
Examples:
Elasticsearch cluster with green status (all nodes are running):
$ check_elasticsearch health -U exampleuser -P examplepassword -S --insecure
[OK] - Cluster es-example-cluster is green | status=0 nodes=3 data_nodes=3 active_primary_shards=10 active_shards=20
Elasticsearch cluster with yellow status (not all nodes are running):
$ check_elasticsearch health -U exampleuser -P examplepassword -S --insecure
[WARNING] - Cluster es-example-cluster is yellow | status=1 nodes=2 data_nodes=2 active_primary_shards=10 active_shards=13```
Checks the total hits/results of an Elasticsearch query.
Hint: The plugin is currently capable to return the total hits of documents based on a provided query string.
Usage:
check_elasticsearch query [flags]
Flags:
-q, --query string The Elasticsearch query
-I, --index string Name of the Index which will be used (default "_all")
-k, --msgkey string Message of messagekey to display
-m, --msglen int Number of characters to display in the latest message (default 80)
-w, --warning string Warning threshold for total hits (default "20")
-c, --critical string Critical threshold for total hits (default "50")
-h, --help help for query
Examples:
Search for total hits without any message:
$ check_elasticsearch query -q "event.dataset:sample_web_logs and @timestamp:[now-5m TO now]" -I "kibana_sample_data_logs"
[CRITICAL] - Total hits: 14074 | total=14074;20;50
Search for total hits with message:
$ check_elasticsearch query -q "event.dataset:sample_web_logs and @timestamp:[now-5m TO now]" -I "kibana_sample_data_logs" -k "message"
[CRITICAL] - Total hits: 14074
30.156.16.163 - - [2018-09-01T12:44:53.756Z] "GET /wp-content/plugins/video-play
| total=14074;20;50
Checks the ingest statistics of Ingest Pipelines. Thresholds check against errors of an Elasticsearch Ingest Pipeline.
Checks the ingest statistics of Ingest Pipelines
Usage:
check_elasticsearch ingest [flags]
Flags:
--pipeline string Pipeline Name
--failed-warning string Warning threshold for failed ingest operations. Use min:max for a range. (default "10")
--failed-critical string Critical threshold for failed ingest operations. Use min:max for a range. (default "20")
-h, --help help for ingest
Examples:
check_elasticsearch ingest --failed-warning 5 --failed-critical 10
[WARNING] - Ingest operations may not be alright
\_[WARNING] Failed ingest operations for mypipeline: 6; | pipelines.mypipeline.failed=6c
check_elasticsearch ingest --pipeline foobar
[OK] - Ingest operations alright
\_[OK] Failed ingest operations for foobar: 5; | pipelines.foobar.failed=5c
Checks status of Snapshots.
Checks the status of Elasticsearch snapshots
The plugin maps snapshot status to the following status codes:
SUCCESS, Exit code 0
PARTIAL, Exit code 1
FAILED, Exit code 2
IN_PROGRESS, Exit code 3
If there are multiple snapshots the plugin uses the worst status
Usage:
check_elasticsearch snapshot [flags]
Flags:
-a, --all Check all retrieved snapshots. If not set only the latest snapshot is checked
-N, --number int Check latest N number snapshots. If not set only the latest snapshot is checked (default 1)
-r, --repository string Comma-separated list of snapshot repository names used to limit the request (default "*")
-s, --snapshot string Comma-separated list of snapshot names to retrieve. Wildcard (*) expressions are supported (default "*")
-h, --help help for snapshot
Examples:
$ check_elasticsearch snapshot
[OK] - All evaluated snapshots are in state SUCCESS
$ check_elasticsearch snapshot --all -r myrepo
[CRITICAL] - At least one evaluated snapshot is in state FAILED
$ check_elasticsearch snapshot --number 5 -s mysnapshot
[WARNING] - At least one evaluated snapshot is in state PARTIAL
Copyright (c) 2022 NETWAYS GmbH
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