Elasticsearch plugin - monitoring if a node is alive?

[danwashusen]

Quick question (and I'm new to newrelic so maybe I'm missing something), does the elasticsearch plugin monitor and report on the state of the node (up/down)?

I have a three node cluster with the following config:

  elasticsearch:
    - name: db-01
      host: db-01
      port: 9200
      scheme: http
    - name: db-02
      host: db-02
      port: 9200
      scheme: http
    - name: db-03
      host: db-03
      port: 9200
      scheme: http

To test I shut down db-03 and waited for ~10 minutes but the new relic UI is still reporting 'Component normal'. I was hoping the plugin would alert me of this?

As a side question/alternative, I can't seem to create an alert on based on the number of data nodes (under the 'Cluster' tab)?

[danwashusen]

After some more digging it looks like new relic suggests that plugins can "set Caution (yellow) or Critical alert (red) conditions for your plugin's components or instances". So is it just a case of updating the plugin to do this?

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/plugins/plugins-new-relic/using-plugins/viewing-plugin-alerts