Monitors are not an Elastic feature. What you're asking about is an Open Distro feature and they can offer you support for that. If you want, you can use our Alerting framework which doesn't have such limitations.
Thanks for pointing that out that Monitors are an Open Distro feature. I had not realized that as a relatively new Kibana user and it is also named Alerting. In the docs I see Alerting under Stack Management but I don't see that on my instance, even though my user account role has all_access. How can I find the Elastic Alerting in Kibana?
Well, since you had Open Distro installed and that works only on the Open-source version of Kibana, I guess that's the reason. The open-source and the basic versions of Kibana are different. Both are free, just the second one contains more features.
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