# Metricbeat creates a Standalone Cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-creates-a-standalone-cluster/285492
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-creates-a-standalone-cluster/285492 "2021-09-29T15:57:36Z")
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### Author: ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-creates-a-standalone-cluster/285492/1 "2021-09-29T15:57:36Z")

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Hi folks,

I have running 3 nodes elastic cluster and 2 nodes of logstash and I use metricbeat to monitor them and filebeat to collect logs. Everything is in 7.13.2 version

Currently I am experiencing following issue when I start metricbeat:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/0/20f5d47b86c310f8b7217a201cc034c5d00b1600.png)

**Metricbeat creates a Standalone Cluster** just with the logstash nodes inside. For metricbeat I use Elasticsearch as output.

This is the relevant part of my metricbeat.yaml:

```auto
monitoring.enabled: false

# Sets the UUID of the Elasticsearch cluster under which monitoring data for this
# Metricbeat instance will appear in the Stack Monitoring UI. If output.elasticsearch
# is enabled, the UUID is derived from the Elasticsearch cluster referenced by output.elasticsearch.
monitoring.cluster_uuid: "sdfgvjnkwDJsjnd_jdj"

```

logstash.yml from modules.d:

```auto
- module: logstash
  metricsets:
    - node
    - node_stats
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["http://logstash1.node.com:9600"]
  enabled: true
  xpack.enabled: true

```

Also I have set

`xpack.monitoring.enabled: false`

in the logstash.yml on my logstash nodes

Does anyone have Ideas how I can get rid of this second "Standalone Cluster" ?

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### Author: ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-creates-a-standalone-cluster/285492/2 "2021-09-30T11:15:00Z")

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After I have set:

`monitoring.cluster_uuid: "sdfgvjnkwDJsjnd_jdj"`

in `logstash.yml` on my logstash nodes the "Standalone Cluster" is gone from the Monitoring in Kibana.

Does anyone have any Idea why I need to set `monitoring.cluster_uuid` if I have disabled monitoring it all using `xpack.monitoring.enabled: false`

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-creates-a-standalone-cluster/285492/3 "2021-10-28T11:15:36Z")

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