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
}
4

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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6

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.

7

Depending on the response to GET _cluster/settings you need to add persistent or transient. In my case the following command removed the setting. This also made the Upgrade Assistant happy and it went from Warning to No issues

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