For now there are two of them:

• check_es_insert.py – gives you the number of new documents indexed per second
• check_es_docs.py – gives the total number of documents

The second depends on the first, so you need to install both (in the same directory) if you want to use the second only.

• Copy the plugins in your Nagios plugins directory (usually /usr/lib/nagios/plugins)
• Make sure they can be executed by whatever runs them (Nagios/Shinken/NRPE)

• edit /etc/shinken/commands.cfg and add something like this:

define command{
  command_name    check_es_docs
  command_line    /usr/local/shinken/libexec/check_ping -w 5000000 -c 10000000 -a elasticserver:9200
}

• edit the host configuration file for the host you want to monitor (eg: /etc/shinken/hosts/localhost.cfg), and add a service like this:

define service{
  host_name    linuxbox
  service_description    TotalESDocuments
  check_command    check_es_docs
  #other options, if you want
}

• restart Nagios/Shinken and it should work

• define the command in NRPE’s config (eg: make a new file /etc/nagios/nrpe.d/check_es.cfg and make sure it’s readable by nagios:nagios), that looks something like this:

command[check_es_docs]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_es_docs -w 5000000 -c 10000000

• restart NRPE server

• edit the host configuration file for the host you want to monitor (eg: /etc/shinken/hosts/localhost.cfg), and add a service like this:

define service{
  host_name    linuxbox
  service_description    TotalESDocuments
  check_command    check_nrpe!check_es_docs
  #other options, if you want
}

• restart Nagios/Shinken and it should work

Run the plugins with

—help