# Monitor status of filebeats in Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056 "2018-03-21T18:51:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/1 "2018-03-21T18:51:24Z")
I was at the Elasticon 2018 and I was told that the ability to monitor filebeats inside of Kibana was available in 6.2 just like we have it for elasticsearch, kibana & logstash. I am not seeing how to turn that on inside of filebeats? Any help would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/2 "2018-03-21T19:03:20Z")
Are you using X-Pack? You need X-pack to do that, the basic license, which is free, allows monitoring.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.2/monitoring.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.2/monitoring.html)
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/3 "2018-03-21T19:04:11Z")
I think I just found it ... xpack.monitoring.enabled: true
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/4 "2018-03-21T19:16:04Z")
tried putting the below settings in my filebeat.yml but getting the below error.
xpack.monitoring.enabled: true
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.url: [http://d-gp2-es46-9](http://d-gp2-es46-9).\*\*\*\*\*.com:9200
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.username: kibana
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password: changeme
2018-03-21T19:14:03.430Z ERROR instance/beat.go:667 Exiting: missing required field accessing 'xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml')
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### Author:  [@kyle\_che](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kyle_che)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/5 "2018-03-21T19:21:39Z")
Added that line it asked for and it seemed to work...
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.hosts
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-status-of-filebeats-in-kibana/125056/6 "2018-04-18T19:22:10Z")
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