Machine learning option disabled

[kanthimathi]

I couldn't find the machine learning option in the Kibana console though I use the latest version!
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance

[rashmi (kulkarni)]

is this a cloud instance ? (or ) may be set xpack.ml.enabled to true if you have x-pack installed and restart your instance.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/ml-settings-kb.html

Cheers
Rashmi

[kanthimathi]

Thanks for your reply @rashmi. The screenshot was from kibana console. I checked the cloud console where i cannot find the xpack.ml.enabled option as well as I checked on the advanced settings option from the kibana console. Can you please let me know what i am missing?

[rashmi (kulkarni)]

Hi Kantimati,

May be when you do a GET _xpack you see ML as disbled. Its disabled by default. u need to put xpack.ml.enabled: true into a field "User Settings" on the page "Create Cluster".
You can follow a similar discuss post here to know the reason behind it being disabled by default.

Machine Learning disabled by default?

ML is disabled for a few reasons: One of them is that it is not fully supported by the platform. For example, I do not recommend to create clusters with enabled ML using a topology with 2 availability zones (you should use either 1 or 3 AZ) because in this particular case we create a thin tiebreaker node to support the cluster's quorum. ML job can end up on that node and that can cause its failure. Another reason is that we want a user to make a conscious choice. For example, we highly recomme…

Hope this helps
Cheers
Rashmi