Cannot disable "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled" setting

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Hello,
I'm using Kibana upgrade assistant to fix a vulnerability issue, the problem is I need to resolve all warnings, one warning that i couldn't fix is this :

the setting [xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled] is currently set to [true], remove this setting (nodes impacted: [SCPRWUWS05])

I tried setting "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled" to false in elasticsearch.yml file, but nothing was changed.

How do i disable this?

2

After using metricbeat and disabled self monitoring for elasticsearch & kibana, 1 more warning popped up :

setting [xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.collection.enabled] is deprecated and will be removed after 8.0

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Is there any way to skip these warnings?
Can I install the new version and import the old snapshot?

3

Found the solution, just need to set these 2 settings to "null" in kibana dev tools :

PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": null
}

PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.collection.enabled": null
}
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Hmm. Both of those commands return this on 9.1.4:

{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
        "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: no settings to update;"
      }
    ],
    "type": "action_request_validation_exception",
    "reason": "Validation Failed: 1: no settings to update;"
  },
  "status": 400
}

Even though:

{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack": {
      "monitoring": {
        "collection": {
          "enabled": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "transient": {}
}
5

Hello @archon810 ,

These settings are probably removed now (I was using ELK stack 8.10 back then), they have been deprecated long ago.

Check this URL :

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You’re right, it’s deprecated, which is why I’m trying to get rid of the entry in GET /_cluster/settings which currently returns in 9.1.4:

{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack": {
      "monitoring": {
        "collection": {
          "enabled": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "transient": {}
}

I don’t want to keep a confusing/deprecated setting entry in there.