# Mongo dashboard error and misunderstanding the logstash role

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147 "2019-11-08T16:42:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_cabral_jeroni/32/51755_2.png) [@Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Cabral_Jeroni)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/1 "2019-11-08T16:42:45Z")

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I have this top [topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern/205870/3) where I've tried to explain my problem with the Mongo dashboard, however I got no reply.

I believe I'm misunderstanding the usage of the components so I will try to explain how I have it build here.

I have mainly two linux servers, let's say:

- Server 1: with the whole ELK installed: fb, mb, pb, logstack, elastic and kibana);

- Server 2: mongodb with filebeat metricbeat and packectbeat.

The server 2 is shipping to the server 1, however I have the following logstash configuration:

```
input
 {
   beats {
      port => 5044
  }
 }

```

Could it be the problem of not showing the expected Mongo dashboards?

How can I investigate to check what is really happening with this?

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/2 "2019-11-09T17:07:30Z")

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Is the data making it to Elasticsearch? What are you seeing in localhost:9200/\_cat/indices for Elasticsearch? I would also suggest checking the filebeat/metricbeat/packetbeat logs on server 2.

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_cabral_jeroni/32/51755_2.png) [@Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Cabral_Jeroni)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/3 "2019-11-11T08:28:52Z")

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@tylersmalley, yes the data is making into elastic. Following is the image of the \_cat/indices

 ![image_cat_index](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/3/53f41ac125a82078a04254a2036563ba3e142271.jpeg)

Looking into the logs in metric beat: /var/logs/metribeat I see nothing related to errors. I will put the logs here as fast as I can.

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_cabral_jeroni/32/51755_2.png) [@Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Cabral_Jeroni)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/4 "2019-11-12T15:51:08Z")

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Hi everyone,

I've made a change which has partially fixed the problem. In the metribeat.yml I changed the parameter setup.dashboards.enable to true and now I'm seeing the dashboard populated, that's a positive fact. On the other hand, I'm getting now the following error when refreshing the Kibana's dashboard: **"Field is a required parameter".** Do you know why?

By curiosity, why is the dashboard working after changing this flag?

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**Author:** ![Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felipe_cabral_jeroni/32/51755_2.png) [@Felipe\_Cabral\_Jeroni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Felipe_Cabral_Jeroni)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/5 "2019-11-19T08:01:09Z")

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Please, anyone here can help?

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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:** [December 17, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mongo-dashboard-error-and-misunderstanding-the-logstash-role/207147/6 "2019-12-17T08:01:12Z")

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