# Marvel Agent Ignoring settings and writing locally
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579 "2016-03-16T15:34:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@flyingrabbit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flyingrabbit)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579/1 "2016-03-16T15:34:33Z")
Hi All, Thanks for any advice anyone can give on this issue!
My setting for Marvel agent in my production cluster is
marvel.agent.exporters
id1:
type: http
host: ["[http://MonitoringNodeName:9200/](http://MonitoringNodeName:9200/)"
I can get to [http://MonitoringNodeName:9200/](http://MonitoringNodeName:9200/) from any node in the production cluster and see head for example.
But for some reason I get a lot of index not found errors in the main cluster log. Then just for the heck of it I manually created the index with today's date on the production cluster.
It immediately started filling with data. Why is the marvel.agent.exporters setting being ignored?
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### Author:  [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579/2 "2016-03-16T20:56:33Z")
YAML is very sensitive to whitespace. Your issue is most likely related to that:
```auto
marvel.agent.exporters
id1:
type: http
host: ["http://MonitoringNodeName:9200/"]
```
You were also missing a `]` at the end of the example, but hopefully it was just a copy/paste issue.
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### Author:  [@flyingrabbit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flyingrabbit)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579/3 "2016-03-17T13:54:09Z")
Hi pickypg,
How do you post the code on this forum so it displays correctly?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-agent-ignoring-settings-and-writing-locally/44579/4 "2017-07-06T13:45:01Z")