# Enabling X-pack monitoring for logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 31, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951 "2017-10-31T20:35:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kenny123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kenny123)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/1 "2017-10-31T20:35:40Z")
HI,
I recently started learning ELK . I am trying to setup monitoring X-pack on logstash but couldn't find the directory called plugins like in Elasticsearch or kibana . Moreover , can I please know how to configure below settings in logstash . Should we need to configure them in logstash.yml ? because I created seperate logstash conf file.
> xpack.monitoring.enabled: "true"
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> xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.url: "[http://xx.xx.xx.xx:9200](http://xx.xx.xx.xx:9200)"
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> xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: "elastic"
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> xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password: "changeme"
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### Author:  [@RobBavey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RobBavey)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/2 "2017-10-31T20:47:47Z")
Hi @kenny123
Assuming you have successfully installed x-pack for Logstash, you should put the x-pack monitoring configuration settings in your existing logstash.yml file.
Rob
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### Author:  [@kenny123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kenny123)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/3 "2017-10-31T21:10:09Z")
Thank you for the reply. I downloaded the zipped x-pack file to logstash and unzipped it . I specified the parameters in logstash.yml but I am getting an below error
```
[2017-10-31T13:51:02,702][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module_name=>"fb_apache", :directory=>"/root/logstash-sap/modules/fb_apache/configuration"}
[2017-10-31T13:51:02,713][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module_name=>"netflow", :directory=>"/root/logstash-sap/modules/netflow/configuration"}
[2017-10-31T13:51:02,731][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#, :backtrace=>["/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:32:in `get_setting'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:64:in `set_value'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:83:in `merge'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1342:in `each'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:83:in `merge'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:135:in `validate_all'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:243:in `execute'", "/root/logstash-sap/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "/root/logstash-sap/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:204:in `run'", "/root/logstash-sap/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "/root/logstash-sap/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:71:in `(root)'"]}
```
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### Author:  [@RobBavey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RobBavey)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/4 "2017-10-31T21:15:39Z")
Hi @kenny123
That sounds like x-pack hasn't been installed for Logstash - did you follow all of the the [installation instructions](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.6/installing-xpack-log.html) - in particular the command to install the plugin by invoking either
`bin/logstash-plugin install x-pack` or
`bin/logstash-plugin install file:///path/to/file/x-pack-5.6.3.zip` if your logstash server does not have internet access.
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### Author:  [@kenny123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kenny123)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/5 "2017-10-31T21:42:53Z")
Thank you very much. I didn't install it correctly .. After re-installation , it is working fine .
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-monitoring-for-logstash/105951/6 "2017-11-28T21:42:54Z")
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