Watcher Download overview
Watcher is an Elasticsearch feature that you can use to create actions based on conditions, which are periodically evaluated using queries on your data. Watches are helpful for analyzing mission-critical and business-critical streaming data. For example, you might watch application logs for performance outages or audit access logs for security threats.
Watcher examples
Watcher job to integrate ChatGPT in Elasticsearch
Watcher job to integrate ChatGPT API from OpenAI in Elasticsearch. Helpful to find solutions for error messages very quick.
Move to next ILM phase Watcher
This watcher job is moving specific indices based on e.g. disc usage into the next ILM phase.
Kibana alerting enhancement
This bundle enhances the Kibana alerting experience. Storing all relevant information in indices and visualize the data in dashboards.
Watch to move older Elasticsearch indices into freezed state
This watch is moving time based indices into the frozen state.
Watch to detect large shards
This watch is getting data from the Elasticsearch shards API directly and checking for large shards.
Watch for changes in IOWaits
A watch which alerts if the time spent by a hosts CPU in IOWait, has increased by more than than N% in the last Y mins.
Uptime watch using Heartbeat data
This watch checks the availability of your Heartbeat observed services. It will trigger an alert whenever at least one of your services is down.
More about Watcher
Using Watcher in Elasticsearch helps to automate tasks and analyses the data that is store in the Elastic Stack. This is one element of the alerting features within the ELK stack.