# Monitoring a dedicated Monitoring Instance on ECK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [April 13, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318 "2022-04-13T10:52:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mag-mkorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@mag-mkorn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mag-mkorn)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318/1 "2022-04-13T10:52:47Z")

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Hi Folks,

with `spec.monitoring` ECK provides a very nice way to enable monitoring and ship data to a dedicated monitoring instance. However, you can not configure an instance to send the data to itself ([stated here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-stack-monitoring.html)).

So what is the intended way to monitor the monitoring instance? I already ran in situations where the monitoring instance ran out of disk space, which could've been prevented with monitoring enabled.  
As`xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch` is deprecated I don't really see which way we are supposed to go. Install another instance just for monitoring the monitoring instance? Seems kind of weird.

Looking forward to any insights or ways that you have taken to target this problem.

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**Author:** ![Thibault\_Richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thibault_richard/32/50513_2.png) [@Thibault\_Richard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibault_Richard)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318/2 "2022-04-13T19:00:36Z")

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Hello,

This has been fixed and Elasticsearch self-monitoring will be possible with ECK 2.2.0, coming soon.

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**Author:** ![mag-mkorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@mag-mkorn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mag-mkorn)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318/3 "2022-04-14T07:24:17Z")

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Thats great news, thanks for the feedback!

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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:** [May 12, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-a-dedicated-monitoring-instance-on-eck/302318/4 "2022-05-12T07:25:08Z")

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