28. 04. 2023 Juergen Vigna Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Elasticsearch Snapshots and How to Monitor Them

If you have a NetEye with SIEM Module activated or own an Elasticsearch installation then you have surely activated the Elasticsearch Snapshots to make backups of all your indexes (or at least the important ones). However you have to take a regular look at your Snapshots Reports to check that everything is working correctly. I recently thought about using the Elasticsearch Snapshot API to automate this task and have a monitoring plugin check your Snapshot status.

To set this up, download this plugin: check_elasticsearch_snapshots.zip and define a command like this one:

/neteye/shared/monitoring/plugins/check_elasticsearch_snapshots.sh -r elastic-backup-repository

You can also look at the command help for more options:

# /neteye/shared/monitoring/plugins/check_elasticsearch_snapshots.sh --help
check_elasticsearch_snapshots 1.0.0

This plugin checks for the status of elasticsearch snapshots

Usage:
  check_elasticsearch_snapshots.sh -r <snapshot_repository_name> [ -s <snapshot_basename> ] [-d <number-days-back>]
  check_elasticsearch_snapshots.sh --help
  check_elasticsearch_snapshots.sh --version
-r <snapshot_repository_name> ... name of elasticsearch snapshot backup repostiory
-s <snapshot_basename>        ... base name of snapshop to check for (default: ALL)
-d <number-days-back>         ... numbers of days back to look for status of snapshots (default: 3)

After that define your Service Template and Service, and you can begin monitoring your Elasticsearch Snapshots.

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Juergen Vigna

NetEye Solution Architect at Würth Phoenix

I have over 20 years of experience in the IT branch. After first experiences in the field of software development for public transport companies, I finally decided to join the young and growing team of Würth Phoenix. Initially, I was responsible for the internal Linux/Unix infrastructure and the management of CVS software. Afterwards, my main challenge was to establish the meanwhile well-known IT System Management Solution WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye. As a Product Manager I started building NetEye from scratch, analyzing existing open source models, extending and finally joining them into one single powerful solution. After that, my job turned into a passion: Constant developments, customer installations and support became a matter of personal. Today I use my knowledge as a NetEye Senior Consultant as well as NetEye Solution Architect at Würth Phoenix.

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