# Monitoring sidepanel item not showing despite basic license being installed
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 28, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250 "2016-10-28T06:48:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mallorybobalice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mallorybobalice)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250/1 "2016-10-28T06:48:32Z")
es \_xpack says {"build":{"hash":"7763f8e","date":"2016-10-26T04:51:59.202Z"},"license":{"uid":"44741fd0-xxxx,"type":"basic","mode":"basic","status":"active","expiry\_date\_in\_millis":1508284799999},"features":{"graph":{"description":"Graph Data Exploration for the Elastic Stack","available":false,"enabled":true},"monitoring":{"\*\*description":"Monitoring for the Elastic Stack","available":true,"enabled":true},"\*\*security":{"description":"Security for the Elastic Stack","available":false,"enabled":true},"watcher":{"description":"Alerting, Notification and Automation for the Elastic Stack","available":false,"enabled":true}},"tagline":"You know, for X"}
yet for some reason the tab is missing from XPack sidebar in Kibana .
tried restarting both ES and Kibana - and nothing interesting in syslog
ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS + latest 5 ES and kibana from the apt repo.
the configs are pretty simple for both - just localhost and port.
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250/2 "2016-10-28T07:36:35Z")
Hey,
did you also install the xpack plugin for kibana?
--Alex
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### Author:  [@mallorybobalice](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mallorybobalice)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250/3 "2016-10-28T07:53:25Z")
hmmm, thanks.
it was but reinstalling did fix it
/usr/share/kibana# bin/kibana-plugin remove x-pack
Removing x-pack...
/usr/share/kibana# bin/kibana-plugin install file:///usr/share/kibana/x-pack-5.0.0.zip
Found previous install attempt. Deleting...
Attempting to transfer from file:///usr/share/kibana/x-pack-5.0.0.zip
Transferring 56932561 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Optimizing and caching browser bundles...
Plugin installation complete
/usr/share/kibana#
/usr/share/kibana# service kibana restart
/usr/share/kibana#
ok after
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-sidepanel-item-not-showing-despite-basic-license-being-installed/64250/4 "2017-07-06T13:40:13Z")