This topic describes how to configure monitoring indexes for your Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch cluster. After the configuration, you can view monitoring log data. This configuration prevents your storage space from being exhausted by the log data.
Prerequisites
Background information
By default, the X-Pack monitoring component collects the monitoring data every 10
seconds and saves the data to the indexes that have prefix .monitoring-*
in your Elasticsearch cluster.
The .monitoring-es-6-*
and .monitoring-kibana-6-*
indexes are used to store the monitoring data. The Elasticsearch cluster rolls over
to a new index each day. The name of a .monitoring-es-6-
index ends with the date when the monitoring data is saved.
A .monitoring-es-6-*
index stores information about the cluster status, cluster statistics, node statistics,
and index statistics, which consumes a large amount of disk space.