# Logstash Instance Missing from Kibana Monitoring

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-instance-missing-from-kibana-monitoring/186734>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 20, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-instance-missing-from-kibana-monitoring/186734 "2019-06-20T17:06:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-instance-missing-from-kibana-monitoring/186734/11 "2019-06-24T16:00:49Z")

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OK, so you do not have monitoring enabled. What do you get for

```
grep xpack.monitoring.enabled /etc/logstash/logstash.yml

```

The markdown I used was three backticks on a line before and after the text. Thus

````
```
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: 10000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.timeout_interval: 600000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,747][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: "logstash_system"
```

````

will appear as

```auto
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: 10000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.timeout_interval: 600000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,747][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: "logstash_system"

```

If you precede a line with 4 spaces

```auto
    [2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
    [2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
    [2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: 10000000000
    [2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.timeout_interval: 600000000000
    [2019-06-24T15:39:30,747][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: "logstash_system"

```

Then it is rendered as

```
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: 10000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,746][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.collection.timeout_interval: 600000000000
[2019-06-24T15:39:30,747][DEBUG][logstash.runner] xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: "logstash_system"

```

The effect of these on single lines is slightly different.

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