Marvel 1.3
Marvel is installed as an Elasticsearch plugin. The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster. By default, the plugin will store data in the same Elasticsearch cluster that it is monitoring.
System requirements
Elasticsearch
Marvel 1.3 is compatible of Elasticsearch 1.0-1.7
Browser
The latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari is recommended. Internet Explorer 10 and above are also supported.
CORS
If you are using Sense to access a remote cluster, you will need to configure the cluster to allow CORS requests. See CORS for more details.
To install
We have to install Marvel on all nodes in the cluster to collect data, and the collected data will be stored in the same cluster.
Step 1:
Traverse to Elasticsearch home directory and run following command
bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest
Step 2:
Restart the Elasticsearch node.
Once the plugin is installed in all nodes, we can access the Marvel using the following URL
node-name can be Elasticsearch node name or IP address.
Marvel 2.0+
To use Marvel 2.0, we need to install two components:
- An Elasticsearch plugin that collects data from each node in our cluster which will be installed on every node.
- A Kibana app that provides the Marvel monitoring UI.
Step 1:
Install Marvel into Elasticsearch,
bin/plugin install license
bin/plugin install marvel-agent
By default, the Marvel plugin stores data in the same Elasticsearch cluster where it is installed.
Step 2:
Install Marvel into Kibana
bin/kibana plugin –install elasticsearch/marvel/latest
Step 3:
Start Elasticsearch and Kibana
bin/elasticsearch
bin/kibana
Step 4:
Visit the following URL with any modern browsers,
Happy exploring data 🙂
Efficient User 