NAME

es-nagios-check.pl - ElasticSearch Nagios Checks

VERSION

version 1.1

SYNOPSIS

es-nagios-check.pl -H [host] [options]

Options:

--help          print help
--host|-H       Host to poll for statistics (default: localhost)
--nodes         The number of nodes expected in the cluster, alarm on variance.
--shard-state   Check the status of shard allocation
--index         Index to check performance statistics (Default: NONE)
--max-segments  Max number of segments in each shard

DESCRIPTION

This is a plugin to poll elasticsearch for it's status and report back to Nagios.

NAME

es-nagios-check.pl - Nagios Plugin to Check Elastic Search

OPTIONS

help

Print this message and exit

host

Optional, the host to check, defaults to localhost

nodes

Optional, if specified checks for this exact number of nodes in the cluster.

shard-state

Optional, if specified checks for relocating, initializing, or unassigned shards.

index

Optional, if specified, state and performance data for this index will be polled.

max-segments

The more segments in a shard, the slower searches will be against that shard. This option requires the --index flag in order to establish the correct sets of shards to check for segmentation.

AUTHOR

Brad Lhotsky <brad@divisionbyzero.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Brad Lhotsky.

This is free software, licensed under:

The (three-clause) BSD License