# Cannot access stack monitoring

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [August 22, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589 "2022-08-22T09:23:24Z")
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### Author: ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589/1 "2022-08-22T09:23:24Z")

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Hi, we are using the free license.  
I cannot access the stack monitoring. Getting following error message inside kibana:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/f/3f0c773c72af0be211a6b0fea8aa0a4cf8772f81.png)

The issue occurs as superuser elastic and with a newly created user called monitoring:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/0/a03c890716eddf83859d985230b83aa28134cc46.png)  
It doesn't matter, the user has the superuser role or not. same issue.

I am using elasticsearch / kibana 8.3.2.

Any help is appreciated.  
Thanks, Andreas

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### Author: ![matschaffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matschaffer/32/95396_2.png) [@matschaffer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matschaffer)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589/2 "2022-08-23T05:11:57Z")

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Hi Andreas!

I think you might be running into [[Stack Monitoring] Missing remote\_cluster\_client role is reported as "access denied" · Issue #129546 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/129546) can you check that `remote_cluster_client` is added to the ES node being used for stack monitoring?

Alternatively you can set `monitoring.ui.ccs.enabled: false` in kibana.yml to avoid attempting to query remote clusters when loading the stack monitoring UI.

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### Author: ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589/3 "2022-08-23T06:45:57Z")

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great, thanks.  
Adding the role `remote_cluster_client` for elasticsearch node did the trick.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2022, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-access-stack-monitoring/312589/4 "2022-09-20T06:46:28Z")

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