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Anurag Gupta
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1044
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Summary

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) is a robust orchestration tool that helps enterprises centrally manage their Elastic Stack deployments, facilitating internal teams to quickly derive insights without the hassle of handling Elastic Stack operations. The platform offers a powerful API that allows users to monitor and understand resource allocation and usage across different teams, which is crucial as more teams onboard to a centralized ECE environment. This commentary provides a guide on leveraging ECE's API to gather usage statistics, such as memory and disk usage, of Elasticsearch clusters, enabling administrators to track changes over time. By utilizing X-Pack’s Alerting Watcher capability, users can set up periodic API calls to capture data, which is then indexed and visualized in Kibana for comprehensive insights. Though the post discusses deprecated features, it showcases methods to create visualizations of memory and disk usage, with intentions to expand metering capabilities to include network bandwidth and usage metrics in the future.