# Elasticsearch | Dedicated Monitoring Cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498 "2019-03-08T13:24:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Nikesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikesh)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/1 "2019-03-08T13:24:26Z")
Hi,
I am working on developing dedicated Monitoring Cluster for production environment
I have gone through this [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/6.4/monitoring-production.html). It says a gold license is required to monitor multiple Elasticsearch clusters. But I want to just monitor a single cluster with three nodes on a different dedicated cluster. Is it mandatory to have a license to monitor a single cluster as well?
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### Author:  [@Nikesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikesh)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/2 "2019-03-11T05:58:03Z")
@elastic
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/3 "2019-03-11T07:24:15Z")
No. It's not.
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### Author:  [@lar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lar)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/4 "2019-03-12T10:16:01Z")
@dadoonet I had a same question, didn't want to open a duplicate thread..so would it be fine to ask in the same thread.
Would I need to have a Monitoring Cluster on AWS ? Native tools like Cloudtrail/Cloudwatch using SNS should server the purpose ?
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### Author:  [@Nikesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nikesh)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/5 "2019-03-12T10:25:43Z")
Thanks for the response.
I did create a Dedicated Monitoring Cluster. Everything seems to work fine.
Although, Is there any limitations present in this?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/6 "2019-03-12T10:34:53Z")
I don't think there is.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/7 "2019-03-12T10:36:20Z")
I don't know about "Cloudtrail/Cloudwatch using SNS".
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-dedicated-monitoring-cluster/171498/8 "2019-04-09T10:36:21Z")
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