# Machine learning option disabled
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 19, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657 "2018-03-19T22:42:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kanthimathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanthimathi)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657/1 "2018-03-19T22:42:30Z")
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
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657/2 "2018-03-19T23:15:31Z")
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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/ml-settings-kb.html)
Cheers
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@kanthimathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanthimathi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657/3 "2018-03-20T02:20:37Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657/4 "2018-03-20T02:46:18Z")
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?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-disabled-by-default/99052/4):
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> 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
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-option-disabled/124657/5 "2018-04-17T02:46:30Z")
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