# Ingest node, what's the deal? It's required ?!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-whats-the-deal-its-required/79862>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-whats-the-deal-its-required/79862 "2017-03-24T08:05:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-node-whats-the-deal-its-required/79862/7 "2017-03-24T10:04:17Z")

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Actually it's documented here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-settings.html#local-exporter-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-settings.html#local-exporter-settings)

Look at the `use_ingest` option.

```auto
xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_local:
  type: local
  use_ingest: false

```

I hope this helps

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