# Problem with xpack maps app when configured document layer with remote index pattern

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** maps\
**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426 "2021-02-16T12:08:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![nrt.krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@nrt.krishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nrt.krishna)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426/1 "2021-02-16T12:08:29Z")

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I am trying to configure a document layer with an index pattern which is in remote cluster. I am getting below exception.

`Unable to fetch index settings for index pattern '<clustername:indexpattern-name>'. Ensure you have 'view_index_metadata' role.`

Note: I disabled kibana security module as I am using opendistro

Could somebody help how to resolve it? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426/2 "2021-02-16T22:21:51Z")

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> Note: I disabled kibana security module as I am using opendistro

If you are using opendistro then the maps application is not supported. Maps is only supported with Elastic's distro.

What version of Kibana are you running? There was a bug resolved in version 7.7.1 that effected remote indices, [[Maps] Handle cross cluster index \_settings resp by nreese · Pull Request #66797 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/66797)

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**Author:** ![nrt.krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7feea3/32.png) [@nrt.krishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nrt.krishna)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426/3 "2021-02-23T06:05:32Z")

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I am using 7.9.3

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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:** [March 23, 2021, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-xpack-maps-app-when-configured-document-layer-with-remote-index-pattern/264426/4 "2021-03-23T06:06:28Z")

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