# Disable monitoring exporters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [November 27, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308 "2018-11-27T09:53:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/1 "2018-11-27T09:53:45Z")

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Hello,  
i need to disable monitoring exporters and set the monitoring to default setting

```
GET /_cluster/settings
 {
  "persistent" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "elasticsearch" : {
          "collection" : {
            "enabled" : "true"
          }
        },
        "collection" : {
          "enabled" : "true"
        },
        "exporters" : {
          "cloud_monitoring" : {
            "host" : "",
            "type" : ""
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "transient" : { }
}

```

i can't delete my cloud\_monitoring exporters ☹

thank you

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/2 "2018-11-27T10:30:51Z")

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ok i found the solution

set value to **null**

```
PUT /_cluster/settings 
{
  "persistent" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "elasticsearch" : {
          "collection" : {
            "enabled" : null
          }
        },
        "collection" : {
          "enabled" : null
        },
        "exporters" : {
          "cloud_monitoring" : {
            "host" : null,
            "type" : null
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/3 "2018-11-27T10:54:01Z")

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still not working

```
[2018-11-27T11:52:14,239][WARN][o.e.c.s.ClusterApplierService] [2yFYVFj] failed to apply cluster settings
org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsException: missing exporter type for [cloud_monitoring] exporter
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.Exporters.initExporters(Exporters.java:139) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.Exporters.setExportersSetting(Exporters.java:67) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting$2.apply(Setting.java:625) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting$2.apply(Setting.java:598) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings$SettingUpdater.lambda$updater$0(AbstractScopedSettings.java:555) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.applySettings(AbstractScopedSettings.java:184) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.applyChanges(ClusterApplierService.java:458) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService.runTask(ClusterApplierService.java:416) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService$UpdateTask.run(ClusterApplierService.java:160) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:624) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:244) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
```

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/4 "2018-11-27T11:15:57Z")

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Have you tried this?

```auto
PUT /_cluster/settings 
{
  "persistent" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "elasticsearch" : {
          "collection" : {
            "enabled" : null
          }
        },
        "collection" : {
          "enabled" : null
        },
        "exporters" : {
          "cloud_monitoring" : null
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/5 "2018-11-27T13:17:12Z")

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> [@shaunak](#):
>
> PUT /\_cluster/settings { "persistent" : { "xpack" : { "monitoring" : { "elasticsearch" : { "collection" : { "enabled" : null } }, "collection" : { "enabled" : null }, "exporters" : { "cloud\_monitoring" : null } } } } }

no ☹ i have a status with 400

```
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "remote_transport_exception",
        "reason": "[2yFYVFj][0.0.0.0:9300][cluster:admin/settings/update]"
      }
    ],
    "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
    "reason": "persistent setting [xpack.monitoring.exporters.cloud_monitoring], not recognized"
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

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**Author:** ![chrisronline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrisronline/32/28230_2.png) [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/6 "2018-11-27T14:27:38Z")

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If you run `GET /_cluster/settings` again, what do you see?

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/7 "2018-11-27T14:55:14Z")

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> [@shaunak](#):
>
> PUT /\_cluster/settings { "persistent" : { "xpack" : { "monitoring" : { "elasticsearch" : { "collection" : { "enabled" : null } }, "collection" : { "enabled" : null }, "exporters" : { "cloud\_monitoring" : null } } } } }

i have

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

```

but i sitll have error and kibana don't show monitoring after 1 hour ....

```
##
We couldn't activate monitoring

No monitoring data found. Try setting the time filter to "Last 1 hour" or check if data is available for a different time period.

If data is in your cluster, your monitoring dashboards will show up here.

```

and i sitll have error

```
[2018-11-27T15:50:38,057][DEBUG][o.e.a.a.c.s.TransportClusterUpdateSettingsAction] [2yFYVFj] failed to perform [cluster_update_settings]
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: persistent setting [xpack.monitoring.exporters], not recognized
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.updateSettings(AbstractScopedSettings.java:717) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.updateDynamicSettings(AbstractScopedSettings.java:663) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.settings.SettingsUpdater.updateSettings(SettingsUpdater.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.settings.TransportClusterUpdateSettingsAction$1.execute(TransportClusterUpdateSettingsAction.java:183) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateUpdateTask.execute(ClusterStateUpdateTask.java:45) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.executeTasks(MasterService.java:639) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.calculateTaskOutputs(MasterService.java:268) ~[elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService.runTasks(MasterService.java:198) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.MasterService$Batcher.run(MasterService.java:133) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher.runIfNotProcessed(TaskBatcher.java:150) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.TaskBatcher$BatchedTask.run(TaskBatcher.java:188) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:624) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.runAndClean(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:244) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor$TieBreakingPrioritizedRunnable.run(PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor.java:207) [elasticsearch-6.5.1.jar:6.5.1]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:1.8.0_191]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:1.8.0_191]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_191]

```

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/8 "2018-11-27T15:37:29Z")

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Can you post the results of these two queries, please?

```auto
GET /

```

```auto
POST .monitoring-es-*/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "aggs": {
    "type": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "type",
        "size": 10
      },
      "aggs": {
        "cluster_uuid": {
          "terms": {
            "field": "cluster_uuid",
            "size": 10
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

Also, please post your `kibana.yml` after removing or masking any sensitive information like passwords or keys.

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/9 "2018-11-27T15:50:20Z")

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> [@shaunak](#):
>
> POST .monitoring-es-\*/\_search { "size": 0, "aggs": { "type": { "terms": { "field": "type", "size": 10 }, "aggs": { "cluster\_uuid": { "terms": { "field": "cluster\_uuid", "size": 10 } } } } } }

```
{
  "name" : "qkhOC20",
  "cluster_name" : "ES_Cluster_23",
  "cluster_uuid" : "rGGXv2LLQJa-obXgj7PuPQ",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "6.5.1",
    "build_flavor" : "default",
    "build_type" : "rpm",
    "build_hash" : "8c58350",
    "build_date" : "2018-11-16T02:22:42.182257Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "7.5.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "5.6.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "5.0.0"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"

```

the seconde query

```
{
  "took" : 0,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 0,
    "successful" : 0,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 0,
    "max_score" : 0.0,
    "hits" : []
  }
}

```

my kibana.yml

```
server.host: "0.0.0.0"
elasticsearch.url: "https://xxxx.net:9200"
elasticsearch.username: "kibana"
elasticsearch.password: "XXXX"
logging.silent: false
logging.verbose: true
xpack.security.authorization.legacyFallback.enabled: true
logging.dest: /var/log/kibana.log

```

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/10 "2018-11-27T15:56:21Z")

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Thanks. It looks like there's no monitoring data at all.

Could you also post the results of `elasticsearch.yml` from your master Elasticsearch node, with any sensitive information masked?

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/11 "2018-11-27T16:03:38Z")

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thank you ! but im not using elasticsearch.yml to configure monitoring  
i use the kibana gui to configure Elasticsearch  
that's worked but when i export monitoring to cloud (elastic cloud monitoring on aws)  
then i prefered to keep my monitoring index in my cluster  
so after that i have this problem !

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/12 "2018-11-27T16:21:05Z")

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I see. In that case, could you post the results of this query?

```auto
GET _cluster/settings?filter_path=*.xpack.monitoring&include_defaults=true

```

Also, are you seeing any errors in your Elasticsearch master node logs about monitoring collection (apart from the `IllegalArgumentException: persistent setting [xpack.monitoring.exporters], not recognized` error you posted already)?

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/13 "2018-12-03T10:45:37Z")

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```http
GET /_cluster/settings?filter_path=*.xpack.monitoring&include_defaults=true
{
  "persistent" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "elasticsearch" : {
          "collection" : {
            "enabled" : "true"
          }
        },
        "collection" : {
          "enabled" : "true"
        },
        "exporters" : {
          "cloud_monitoring" : {
            "type" : "local"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "defaults" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "enabled" : "true",
        "collection" : {
          "cluster" : {
            "stats" : {
              "timeout" : "10s"
            }
          },
          "node" : {
            "stats" : {
              "timeout" : "10s"
            }
          },
          "indices" : [],
          "ccr" : {
            "stats" : {
              "timeout" : "10s"
            }
          },
          "index" : {
            "stats" : {
              "timeout" : "10s"
            },
            "recovery" : {
              "active_only" : "false",
              "timeout" : "10s"
            }
          },
          "interval" : "10s",
          "ml" : {
            "job" : {
              "stats" : {
                "timeout" : "10s"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "history" : {
          "duration" : "168h"
        }
      }
    }
  }

```

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/14 "2018-12-05T01:27:23Z")

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I am fairly sure that the `GET /_cluster/settings` API is hiding the `auth.username` and `auth.password` fields in the response.

Try:

```http
PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.exporters.cloud_monitoring": {
      "type": null,
      "host": null,
      "auth": {
        "username": null,
        "password": null
      }
    }
  }
}

```

As an aside, when you just want to toggle it off, it's much easier to just specify `"enabled": false` as a sub-field, then `null` that out (or flip it to `true`) when you want it on again.

```http
PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.exporters.cloud_monitoring.enabled": false
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/15 "2018-12-05T10:11:00Z")

</div>

> [@saif](#):
>
> PUT /\_cluster/settings { "persistent" : { "xpack" : { "monitoring" : { "elasticsearch" : { "collection" : { "enabled" : null } }, "collection" : { "enabled" : null }, "exporters" : { "cloud\_monitoring" : { "host" : null, "type" : null } } } } } }

Thank you

now how to enable local monitoring ?

i have this message

```
##
You need to make some adjustments

To run monitoring please perform the following steps

We checked the `cluster persistent` settings for `xpack.monitoring.exporters` , and found the reason: `Exporters are disabled: cloud_monitoring` .

Using monitoring exporters ship the monitoring data to a remote monitoring cluster is highly recommended as it keeps the integrity of the monitoring data safe no matter what the state of the production cluster. However, as this instance of Kibana could not find any monitoring data, there seems to be a problem with the `xpack.monitoring.exporters` configuration, or the `xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch` settings in `kibana.yml` .

Check that the intended exporters are enabled for sending statistics to the monitoring cluster, and that the monitoring cluster host matches the `xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch` setting in `kibana.yml` to see monitoring data in this instance of Kibana.

```

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**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/16 "2018-12-07T22:56:01Z")

</div>

> now how to enable local monitoring ?

By not defining any exporter, the local exporter is implicitly defined and enabled by default. In your case, you've removed the previously defined exporter(s).

It sounds like someone also, after your previous response, added `"xpack.monitoring.exporters.cloud_monitoring.enabled": false` to your cluster settings (or elasticsearch.yml). This is what the Monitoring UI is complaining about.

```http
PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.exporters.cloud_monitoring.enabled": null
  }
}

```

The next step will be to re-enable `xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled` as you `null`ed that out in your example:

```http
PUT /_cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": true
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![saif](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saif/32/37431_2.png) [@saif](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saif)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-monitoring-exporters/158308/17 "2018-12-10T09:26:34Z")

</div>

> [@pickypg](#):
>
> PUT /\_cluster/settings { "persistent": { "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": true } }

still not working ☹

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/e/ce2386880a4b6164dec8c5cf0ea6d3573b5d95cb.png)

```
GET /_cluster/settings
{
  "persistent" : {
    "xpack" : {
      "monitoring" : {
        "collection" : {
          "enabled" : "true"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "transient" : { }
}

```

and i have .monitoring indices

```
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.08 vkPWL4ClRYGeS2eOC-RrJg 1 1 34559 0 30.8mb 15.4mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.05 dllATBhiRhuQQIkAJPVGaw 1 1 34560 0 30.8mb 15.4mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.05 1mmOz_SmSiqskqpZ-Ge1Bw 1 1 34554 0 17.8mb 8.9mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.03 IHeGKghFTryHLII2JOD7tQ 1 1 52997 0 23.7mb 11.8mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.09 AO9NL_wpQB2Z6nh-aNDTaA 1 1 34553 0 17.8mb 8.9mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.06 axFp_JsLQWek111IVaIokw 1 1 34560 0 31mb 15.4mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.06 L3Y5hjd-QVOQI0ERro36UA 1 1 34552 0 17.5mb 8.7mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.04 Rx-SgdtBQfCy0IVZTRIRWg 1 1 34560 0 30.9mb 15.5mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.09 AUSV3tD3QbSZ2KB48e-Ehg 1 1 34560 0 30.3mb 15.1mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.07 V5VrjgA2SyONQORaVS_7Ow 1 1 34554 0 17.8mb 8.9mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.03 bamPr41PTbqIJp8f6t5Lkg 1 1 34559 0 31.3mb 15.6mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.07 _Rf-pl7gTXmRXWcqRSZTVw 1 1 34559 0 30.9mb 15.4mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.12.10 doKfpZ-8Q8SGCuekLMuwcA 1 1 13412 0 14.9mb 7.4mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.10 2KKxJBSzR--GZAjOT3-AaQ 1 1 13567 0 7.6mb 3.7mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.08 tyRc08XERxe30bKuJhNWIA 1 1 34552 0 17.9mb 9mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.12.04 gUVhR_EMTiivVzRoBltXsg 1 1 34552 0 17.6mb 8.8mb

```

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This may be something else, namely representative of this issue: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/21013](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/21013) .

The easiest way to confirm this is:

```http
GET /.monitoring-es-6-*/_search
{
  "size": 0,
  "query": {
    "range": {
      "timestamp": {
        "gte": "now-1h"
      }
    }
  },
  "aggs": {
    "group_by_cluster": {
      "terms": {
        "field": "cluster_uuid"
      },
      "group_by_type": {
        "terms": {
          "field": "type"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

I'm _guessing_ that you are going to observe `node_stats` returned, but not `cluster_stats`. You can read about the causes of [missing different types here based on the collector's type](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/es-monitoring-collectors.html). The main page, and thus this screen, is driven by the requirement that we receive the `cluster_stats` document, which is the formative document for the cluster.

You've clearly enabled data and your indices prove that at least some of the data is making it through. The lack of deletes in the `.monitoring-es-6-*` also suggests that there are no `shards` documents, which is another thing that comes from the elected master and implies problems there (e.g., maybe you've configured it at the `elasticsearch.yml` level to communicate somewhere else).

Hope that helps,  
Chris

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