# Kibana not seeing external ES monitoring node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [February 19, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966 "2019-02-19T08:36:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gennaris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gennaris/32/41083_2.png) [@gennaris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gennaris)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966/1 "2019-02-19T08:36:29Z")

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Hi all,  
yesterday I setup a dedicated single monitoring node following [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/monitoring-production.html) guide.

I managed to fire up the new monitoring node with the same ES 6.6.0 version of the cluster, then added those lines to my elasticsearch.yml file on all ES cluster nodes :

```
xpack.monitoring.exporters:
  id1:
 type: http
  host: ["http://monitoring-node-ip-here:9200"]

```

Then restarted all nodes and Kibana (that is actually running in one of the node of the ES cluster).

Now I can see today monitoring data indices being sent to the new monitoring external node but Kibana is showing a " **You need to make some adjustments**" when accessing the "Monitoring" section.

```
We checked the `cluster defaults` settings for `xpack.monitoring.exporters` , and found the 
reason: `Remote exporters indicate a possible misconfiguration: id1`

Check that the intended exporters are enabled for sending statistics to the monitoring cluster, 
and that the monitoring cluster host matches the `xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch` setting in  
`kibana.yml` to see monitoring data in this instance of Kibana.

```

I already checked that all nodes are pingable each other , also I don't have xpack security so I haven't created any additional "remote\_monitor" user.

I followed the error message and tried to add the **xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch** in kibana.yml file but I ended up with the following error :

```
 FATAL ValidationError: child "xpack" fails because [child "monitoring" fails because [child 
"elasticsearch" fails because ["url" is not allowed]]]

```

Hope anyone can help me in figuring what's wrong.

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**Author:** ![gennaris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gennaris/32/41083_2.png) [@gennaris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gennaris)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966/2 "2019-02-19T11:11:49Z")

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**EDIT #1**

Solved : problem was due to monitoring not being disabled in the monitoring cluster :

```
PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled": false
  }
}

```

Additional I made a mistake in kibana.yml configuration,  
**xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch** should have been **xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts**

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966/3 "2019-02-20T20:59:08Z")

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Could you mark this topic as solved? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![gennaris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gennaris/32/41083_2.png) [@gennaris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gennaris)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966/4 "2019-02-21T07:34:29Z")

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Done, thank you for you great piece of software 🙂

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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:** [March 21, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-seeing-external-es-monitoring-node/168966/5 "2019-03-21T07:34:31Z")

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