When you self-host Elasticsearch, the entire monitoring and management activities for the cluster are on you. It is necessary to monitor your Elasticsearch node process status, memory, and disk space on the node. If a node crashes for any reason, or becomes unavailable, it needs to be started back again.

The snapshots of the Elasticsearch indexes need to be taken regularly for taking backups. We will discuss the snapshot/restore functionalities for backing up. Most of the monitoring can be achieved via X-Pack and Kibana, but management processes need to be set up manually.