[Alerting + Task Manager] Stack Monitoring for Alerting / Task Manager

[gmmorris]

There are now public docs for monitoring and troubleshooting Task Manager (and Alerting), but there is no integrated experience for these concerns.

This discuss issue is here to start the conversation around adding some kind of presence in Stack Monitoring which would aid administrators in identifying issues in TM/Alerting.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-alerting-services (Team:Alerting Services)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/stack-monitoring (Team:Monitoring)

[chrisronline]

I'd like to kick start this effort by collecting user stories related to monitoring alerting.

For example, a sample story might be:

• As a user, task manager has killed by Kibana instance and I had no insight that Kibana was close to topping over. I need more insight into the performance of Kibana to know when this will happen.

It feels like we are lacking in some part of this, but we should start from the end user to understand what is lacking and how we can change that.

I think our path will lead us to indexing monitoring metrics into the Kibana Stack Monitoring indices but the first step is defining which metrics we need to index, and we need to understand the user stories to help define those metrics. (#98625 looks related)

cc @arisonl