# Kibana Stack Monitoring
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244 "2019-11-25T08:20:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Aitor\_Gomez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aitor_Gomez)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244/1 "2019-11-25T08:20:46Z")
Hello,
I cannot monitor the health of a production cluster in the monitoring cluster ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/monitoring-overview.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/monitoring-overview.html)).
My doubt is if this is a free functionality or I have to subscribe to platinum subscritpion or similar.
Thanks in advance!!!
Aitor
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### Author:  [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244/2 "2019-11-25T16:53:26Z")
Hi Aitor,
Using a monitoring cluster requires a Gold license. There is a note about this in the second paragraph here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/monitoring-production.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/monitoring-production.html)
You can request more information on a Gold license from [https://elastic.co/subscriptions](https://elastic.co/subscriptions).
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### Author:  [@Aitor\_Gomez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aitor_Gomez)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244/3 "2019-11-26T13:02:10Z")
Thanks a lot for your answer nickpeihl!
Best regards,
Aitor
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### Author:  [@Aitor\_Gomez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aitor_Gomez)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244/4 "2019-12-09T15:24:44Z")
Hello,
Is there a minimum number of nodes requirement in the monitoring cluster? Or can be a 1 node cluster¿?
And, the gold suscription does it have to be activated in both clusters, only in the monitoring one or only in the production one? What's the minimum requeriment?
Thanks in advance!
Aitor
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring/209244/5 "2020-01-06T15:24:45Z")
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