# Monitoring view in Kibana with OSS version

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-view-in-kibana-with-oss-version/203826>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 16, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-view-in-kibana-with-oss-version/203826 "2019-10-16T11:56:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katulus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/katulus/32/36348_2.png) [@Katulus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Katulus)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-view-in-kibana-with-oss-version/203826/1 "2019-10-16T11:56:04Z")

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Hello,  
I use OSS version of Elasticsearch 6.8.0 + Kibana and I'm not able to turn on monitoring features. This page - [https://www.elastic.co/what-is/open-x-pack](https://www.elastic.co/what-is/open-x-pack) - says that "Starting with version 6.3, all of the free X-Pack features (monitoring, Search Profiler, Grok Debugger, zoom levels in Elastic Maps Service, dedicated APM UIs, and more) ship with the default distributions of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash."

So I would expect that since XPack is opensource and I'm using opensource version of Elasticsearch I'm able to use monitoring in Kibana.

When I add "xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled: true" to "elasticsearch.yml" it fails to start complaining that it does not know that setting. So how is it with OSS version and monitoring?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-view-in-kibana-with-oss-version/203826/2 "2019-10-16T12:01:25Z")

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Monitoring requires the default distribution and is not part of OSS.

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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:** [November 13, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-view-in-kibana-with-oss-version/203826/3 "2019-11-13T12:01:27Z")

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