# HeartBeat Shows more than 1 line of the same instance

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-shows-more-than-1-line-of-the-same-instance/207949
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** heartbeat
**Created:** [November 14, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-shows-more-than-1-line-of-the-same-instance/207949 "2019-11-14T18:03:45Z")
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### Author: ![Ghaith\_Haddad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ghaith_haddad/32/49288_2.png) [@Ghaith\_Haddad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ghaith_Haddad)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-shows-more-than-1-line-of-the-same-instance/207949/1 "2019-11-14T18:03:45Z")

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So every time i restart hearbeat then go check kibana i see that it re-indexes ES and Kibana again for some reason, like it would show 2 of each as up and running, but its not supposed to do that, there should be only one index/instance of each.

How can i do that, or what am i doing wrong here? please let me know if you need anything from my end to help fix this.

FYI: i've only setup the ES and Kibana hosts and filebeat in the .yml file, on ports ES:9200, KI:5601 and FB:9600

any help or guidance is greatly appreciated!

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### Author: ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-shows-more-than-1-line-of-the-same-instance/207949/2 "2019-11-25T18:00:23Z")

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Does the config file change between reboots? If you change a monitor's config it's automatically hashed monitor.id setting will change.

At any rate, the likely fix here is explicitly setting `monitor.id`. See the docs [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/configuration-heartbeat-options.html#monitor-id)

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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: [December 23, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-shows-more-than-1-line-of-the-same-instance/207949/3 "2019-12-23T18:00:28Z")

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