# Aerospike Monitoring

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-monitoring/4974>\
**Category:** Operations\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-monitoring/4974 "2018-02-23T18:49:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![daulat01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@daulat01](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/daulat01)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-monitoring/4974/1 "2018-02-23T18:49:23Z")

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Dear All,

I am new into Aerospike database and recently I have joined an Organisation where we are using Aerospike database. I have to enable the Monitoring for Aerospike database. But I want to know what are the basic things that we need to Monitor such as other databases. Please suggest the key things that I need to Monitor & how ?

For Example.

Database is running or not. Listener status Database size Server & Ram Utilization Alerts & warnings etc.

Looking for your Valuable inputs.

Regards, Daulat

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**Author:** ![kporter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/kporter/32/515_2.png) [@kporter](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/kporter)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-monitoring/4974/2 "2018-02-23T19:32:39Z")

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I recommend that you begin by reading through our [monitoring guide](https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/monitor/index.html):

As well as including guides for various monitoring tools, it also includes a set of [key metrics](https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/monitor/key_metrics/index.html). These ‘key metrics’ were selected as course grain signals - meaning they will indicate a potential problem but likely not specific enough to pinpoint the problem without further investigation.

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**Author:** ![Albot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/albot/32/2076_2.png) [@Albot](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Albot)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/aerospike-monitoring/4974/3 "2018-02-24T04:07:38Z")

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An easy win for me was to ensure we monitor the % usage and cluster-size by way of logs… in the logs every 30seconds the cluster size and % utilization is printed out. Since my team already had a realtime log monitor tool it was plug and play for that simple metric at least