# Other elasticsearch settings required **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\ **Created:** [June 23, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/other-elasticsearch-settings-required/53809 "2016-06-23T16:57:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![arpan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@arpan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arpan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/other-elasticsearch-settings-required/53809/1 "2016-06-23T16:57:07Z")
I installed marvel on all my elasticsearch nodes and then on kibana. I am not seeing any data currently. Upon investigation when I ran curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v)' , I do not see any marvel related index. I was wondering what other settings need to be in place for marvel to work: From my legacy settings of 1.7 I have these two lines: marvel.agent.enabled: false action.auto\_create\_index: false The first one has changed so I wasn't sure if it is still impacting the creation. The second one is there for security purposes so that random indexes don't arbitrarily get created. What are the settings that NEED to be there in the elasticsearch.yml for marvel to work? ---
**Author:** ![pickypg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pickypg/32/62409_2.png) [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/other-elasticsearch-settings-required/53809/2 "2016-06-23T17:45:57Z")
Which version of Elasticsearch are you running? Can you also run and show the results of: ```auto $ curl -XGET localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v ``` > What are the settings that NEED to be there in the elasticsearch.yml for marvel to work? By default, absolutely _no_ settings are required to make Marvel work. If nothing is configured _and_ it's not disabled, [which is explicit,] then it will report metrics to itself. ```auto marvel.agent.enabled: false ``` As you alluded to, this has become `marvel.enabled: false` now, so the setting will be ignored. That said, it seems to be undesirable to keep useless settings around. ```auto action.auto_create_index: false ``` This will actively prevent any index that "just" gets created by defining a template and then indexing documents, like Marvel. As a result, it should be: ```auto action.auto_create_index: .marvel-* ``` Hope that helps, Chris ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/other-elasticsearch-settings-required/53809/3 "2017-07-06T13:43:00Z")