- ElasticSearch Cluster and Index REST Api allowed a lineup of plug-ins
- X-Pack: monitoring and cluster management dashboard by Elastic
- Head another commonly mentioned monitoring and management plugin
- Head's user interface is a bit dated but it appears to require no license
- BigDesk comes with a more appealing user interface
- BigDesk doesn't appear to require a license and similar to head is open source
- ElasticHQ - not a plug-in, runs in browser and is connecting to ElasticSearch Api
- Keep in mind 3rd party plugins are usually ElasticSearch and Kibana versions specific, updating versions may render plug-ins disabled