# Cross Cluster Search and Xpack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [September 2, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650 "2019-09-02T06:59:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650/1 "2019-09-02T06:59:16Z")

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Hi,  
When we enable cross cluster search it prevents xpack basic monitoring stats from being displayed in kibana. I presume that is because the remote x-pack indices are accessible.

Is there a way to enable cross-cluster-search without breaking local xpack monitoring?

Thx  
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650/2 "2019-09-06T08:16:27Z")

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Any feedback on this will be appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650/3 "2019-09-09T15:19:31Z")

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[quote="dawiro, post:1, topic:197650"]  
When we

> [@dawiro](#):
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> enable cross cluster search

Hi @dawiro,

Could you possible elaborate a bit further on what you mean by

> [@dawiro](#):
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> enable cross cluster search

and

> [@dawiro](#):
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> prevents xpack basic monitoring stats from being displayed in kibana

? This will hopefully help someone understand what your issue is and provide some feedback.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650/4 "2019-09-10T14:10:50Z")

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Hi @ikakavas,  
By `enabling cross-cluster search` I mean updating cluster settings with remote cluster alias and seed nodes as described here:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/modules-remote-clusters.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/modules-remote-clusters.html)

How that impacts xpack basic, I presume, is that the kibana monitoring gui of the `local` cluster detects the xpack indices of the `remote` cluster. As a result, the monitoring dashboard for the local cluster stops working due to license constraints.

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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:** [October 8, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cross-cluster-search-and-xpack/197650/5 "2019-10-08T14:10:50Z")

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