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[role="xpack"]
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[[monitoring-settings-kb]]
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=== Monitoring settings in {kib}
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<titleabbrev>Monitoring settings</titleabbrev>
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By default, *{stack-monitor-app}* is enabled, but data collection is disabled.
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When you first start {kib} monitoring, you are prompted to enable data
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collection. If you are using {stack-security-features}, you must be signed in as
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a user with the `cluster:manage` privilege to enable data collection. The
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built-in `superuser` role has this privilege and the built-in `elastic` user has
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this role.
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You can adjust how monitoring data is
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collected from {kib} and displayed in {kib} by configuring settings in the
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`kibana.yml` file. There are also `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.*` settings,
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which support the same values as <<settings,{kib} configuration settings>>.
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To control how data is collected from your {es} nodes, you configure
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{ref}/monitoring-settings.html[`xpack.monitoring.collection`
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settings] in `elasticsearch.yml`. To control how monitoring data is collected
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from Logstash, configure monitoring settings in `logstash.yml`.
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For more information, see
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{ref}/monitor-elasticsearch-cluster.html[Monitor a cluster].
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[float]
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[[monitoring-general-settings]]
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==== General monitoring settings
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|===
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| `monitoring.enabled`
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| Set to `true` (default) to enable the {monitor-features} in {kib}. Unlike the
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<<monitoring-ui-enabled, `monitoring.ui.enabled`>> setting, when this setting is `false`, the
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monitoring back-end does not run and {kib} stats are not sent to the monitoring
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cluster.
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.hosts`
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| Specifies the location of the {es} cluster where your monitoring data is stored.
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By default, this is the same as <<elasticsearch-hosts, `elasticsearch.hosts`>>. This setting enables
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you to use a single {kib} instance to search and visualize data in your
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production cluster as well as monitor data sent to a dedicated monitoring
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cluster.
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.username`
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| Specifies the username used by {kib} monitoring to establish a persistent connection
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in {kib} to the {es} monitoring cluster and to verify licensing status on the {es}
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monitoring cluster. +
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+
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Every other request performed by *{stack-monitor-app}* to the monitoring {es}
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cluster uses the authenticated user's credentials, which must be the same on
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both the {es} monitoring cluster and the {es} production cluster. +
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+
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If not set, {kib} uses the value of the <<elasticsearch-user-passwd, `elasticsearch.username`>> setting.
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.password`
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| Specifies the password used by {kib} monitoring to establish a persistent connection
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in {kib} to the {es} monitoring cluster and to verify licensing status on the {es}
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monitoring cluster. +
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+
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Every other request performed by *{stack-monitor-app}* to the monitoring {es}
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cluster uses the authenticated user's credentials, which must be the same on
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both the {es} monitoring cluster and the {es} production cluster. +
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+
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If not set, {kib} uses the value of the <<elasticsearch-user-passwd, `elasticsearch.password`>> setting.
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.pingTimeout`
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| Specifies the time in milliseconds to wait for {es} to respond to internal
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health checks. By default, it matches the <<elasticsearch-pingTimeout, `elasticsearch.pingTimeout`>> setting,
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which has a default value of `30000`.
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.ssl`
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| Shares the same configuration as <<elasticsearch-ssl-cert-key, `elasticsearch.ssl`>>. These settings configure encrypted communication between {kib} and the monitoring cluster.
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|===
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[float]
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[[monitoring-collection-settings]]
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==== Monitoring collection settings
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These settings control how data is collected from {kib}.
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|===
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| `monitoring.kibana.collection.enabled`
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| Set to `true` (default) to enable data collection from the {kib} NodeJS server
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for {kib} dashboards to be featured in *{stack-monitor-app}*.
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| `monitoring.kibana.collection.interval` {ess-icon}
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| Specifies the number of milliseconds to wait in between data sampling on the
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{kib} NodeJS server for the metrics that are displayed in the {kib} dashboards.
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Defaults to `10000` (10 seconds).
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|===
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[float]
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[[monitoring-ui-settings]]
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==== Monitoring UI settings
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These settings adjust how *{stack-monitor-app}* displays monitoring data.
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However, the defaults work best in most circumstances. For more information
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about configuring {kib}, see
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{kibana-ref}/settings.html[Setting {kib} server properties].
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|===
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| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.logFetchCount`
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| Specifies the number of log entries to display in *{stack-monitor-app}*.
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Defaults to `10`. The maximum value is `50`.
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|[[monitoring-ui-enabled]] `monitoring.ui.enabled`
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| Set to `false` to hide *{stack-monitor-app}*. The monitoring back-end
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continues to run as an agent for sending {kib} stats to the monitoring
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cluster. Defaults to `true`.
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| `monitoring.ui.logs.index`
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| Specifies the name of the indices that are shown on the
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<<logs-monitor-page,*Logs*>> page in *{stack-monitor-app}*. The default value
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is `filebeat-*`.
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| `monitoring.ui.max_bucket_size`
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| Specifies the number of term buckets to return out of the overall terms list when
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performing terms aggregations to retrieve index and node metrics. For more
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information about the `size` parameter, see
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{ref}/search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation.html#search-aggregations-bucket-terms-aggregation-size[Terms Aggregation].
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Defaults to `10000`.
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| `monitoring.ui.min_interval_seconds` {ess-icon}
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| Specifies the minimum number of seconds that a time bucket in a chart can
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represent. Defaults to 10. If you modify the
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`monitoring.ui.collection.interval` in `elasticsearch.yml`, use the same
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value in this setting.
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|===
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[float]
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[[monitoring-ui-cgroup-settings]]
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===== Monitoring UI container settings
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*{stack-monitor-app}* exposes the Cgroup statistics that we collect for you to make
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better decisions about your container performance, rather than guessing based on
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the overall machine performance. If you are not running your applications in a
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container, then Cgroup statistics are not useful.
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|===
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| `monitoring.ui.container.elasticsearch.enabled` {ess-icon}
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| For {es} clusters that are running in containers, this setting changes the
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*Node Listing* to display the CPU utilization based on the reported Cgroup
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statistics. It also adds the calculated Cgroup CPU utilization to the
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*Node Overview* page instead of the overall operating system's CPU
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utilization. Defaults to `false`.
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| `monitoring.ui.container.logstash.enabled`
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| For {ls} nodes that are running in containers, this setting
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changes the {ls} *Node Listing* to display the CPU utilization
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based on the reported Cgroup statistics. It also adds the
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calculated Cgroup CPU utilization to the {ls} node detail
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pages instead of the overall operating system’s CPU utilization. Defaults to `false`.
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|===
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