# Is there a way to disable Marvel plugin index but keep its report for monitoring?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [December 15, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253 "2015-12-15T15:17:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![shilong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@shilong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shilong)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253/1 "2015-12-15T15:17:13Z")

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Is there a way to disable Marvel plugin index but keep its report for monitoring? Thanks.

plugin:marvel Marvel index ready seems to be too much resource occupied sometimes.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253/2 "2015-12-17T05:04:31Z")

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No you can't, it's either enabled or not.

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**Author:** ![SamJudson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@SamJudson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamJudson)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253/3 "2015-12-23T11:26:59Z")

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The marvel plugin needs to be installed on each elastic node you want to report on. However you can have the marvel index and processing be stored in a different cluster from the node that is being monitored.

e.g. add something like this to your elasticsearch.yml file:

marvel.agent.exporter.es.hosts: ["monitoring-node"]

In version 2.0 the dashboard is actually supplied by a separate kibana installation, and the marvel dashboard is a plugin for that. The elastic plugin is simply the agent part (called marvel-agent now) and I assume much smaller.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-disable-marvel-plugin-index-but-keep-its-report-for-monitoring/37253/4 "2017-07-06T13:46:00Z")

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