# Monitoring remote Elasticsearch performance with metricbeats and Kibana "Monitoring"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867 "2018-06-21T13:00:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sgreszcz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sgreszcz/32/46322_2.png) [@sgreszcz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgreszcz)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/1 "2018-06-21T13:00:49Z")

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Running elasticsearch/kibana (central) and metricbeats version 6.3

I've just enabled metricbeats to monitor 6 edge servers that are running local elasticsearch-based application instances. metricbeats is shipping the metrics to a central elastic/kibana server running x-pack with a license.

I have monitoring enabled and I can see the Kibiana "monitoring" dashboards for the central Elasticsearch database metrics, but for some reason I cannot see any of my remote elasticsearch database metrics in the kibana "monitoring" dashboard.

I can see all the remote elasticsearch metrics in the metricbeat-\* index.

Should Kibana be "smart" enough to add the remote elasticsearch node to the "monitoring" dashboards or do I need to build a custom dashboard for the remote metricbeats monitored elasticsearch nodes?

My metricbeats config is:

```
#------------------------------- ElasticSearch Module -------------------------
# Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/metricbeat-module-elasticsearch.html

- module: elasticsearch
  metricsets:
  - node
  - node_stats
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  #username: "user"
  #password: "secret"
```

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/2 "2018-06-21T13:26:29Z")

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At the moment the data format and index for the data collect by Metricbeat and the internal X-Pack monitoring are very different. So if you want to use the Metricbeat data you have to build your own dashboards on top of it as X-Pack Monitoring is not aware of the data.

Do make use of the X-Pack Monitoring you must configure each of your Elasticsearch Clusters to report to a remote monitoring cluster.

We are working on ideas on how Metricbeat can be used for this in the future.

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**Author:** ![sgreszcz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sgreszcz/32/46322_2.png) [@sgreszcz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgreszcz)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/3 "2018-06-21T13:40:46Z")

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@ruflin - thanks for the feedback!

Do the remote elasticsearch nodes also need an x-pack license to take advantage of the kibana x-pack monitoring too? What type of configurations would you need to do on the remote nodes? Documentation anywhere?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/4 "2018-06-22T07:13:19Z")

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As you use 6.3 x-pack basic is already bundled with it and you already have a license.

The configuration options to send data to the remove cluster you can find here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/monitoring-settings.html#http-exporter-settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.3/monitoring-settings.html#http-exporter-settings)

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**Author:** ![sgreszcz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sgreszcz/32/46322_2.png) [@sgreszcz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgreszcz)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/5 "2018-06-22T10:56:56Z")

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Thanks @ruflin!

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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:** [July 20, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-remote-elasticsearch-performance-with-metricbeats-and-kibana-monitoring/136867/6 "2018-07-20T10:56:58Z")

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