# Remote ES logs in kibana (x-pack) with basic license

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-es-logs-in-kibana-x-pack-with-basic-license/104050>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 16, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-es-logs-in-kibana-x-pack-with-basic-license/104050 "2017-10-16T06:38:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunilthemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@sunilthemaster](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilthemaster)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-es-logs-in-kibana-x-pack-with-basic-license/104050/1 "2017-10-16T06:38:04Z")

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I have 2 ES clusters (data & monitoring) and Kibana cluster.  
Currently Kibana is pointing to monitoring ES to get logs and other details.

I have basic license for x-pack. I need to monitor data ES and as I dont need to load this cluster, I want to redirect monitoring data to monitoring ES using 'xpack.monitoring.exporters'.  
But monitoring data of data-ES is not coming.

Can someone please help me here. Again am mentioning "I have basic license of x-pack".

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-es-logs-in-kibana-x-pack-with-basic-license/104050/2 "2017-10-24T16:59:43Z")

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First, the collector for your "monitoring" cluster should be disabled because the Basic license will only allow you to monitor a single cluster, and you want the "data" cluster to be activated. You can set `xpack.monitoring.collection.interval: -1` on all the nodes of the Monitoring cluster to disable collection.

From the "data" cluster, on ALL the nodes of ES, configure the exporter in the `elasticsearch.yml`:

```auto
xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_monitoring_cluster:
  type: http
  host: host:port

```

That will cause your "data" cluster to send monitoring data to the "monitoring" cluster.

See: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/monitoring-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/monitoring-settings.html)

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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 21, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-es-logs-in-kibana-x-pack-with-basic-license/104050/3 "2017-11-21T16:59:44Z")

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