# Setting "xpack.monitoring.enabled" hasn't been registered

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-xpack-monitoring-enabled-hasnt-been-registered/126345>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 1, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-xpack-monitoring-enabled-hasnt-been-registered/126345 "2018-04-01T03:07:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![paano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cab0a1/32.png) [@paano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paano)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-xpack-monitoring-enabled-hasnt-been-registered/126345/1 "2018-04-01T03:07:51Z")

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I have been struggling to get xpack working with logstash. When disabled it works.

logstash version is 6.2.3.

error i see is:

```
[2018-03-31T22:02:18,031][INFO][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module_name=>"netflow", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration"}
[2018-03-31T22:02:18,042][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#<ArgumentError: Setting "xpack.monitoring.enabled" hasn't been registered>, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:37:in `get_setting'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:70:in `set_value'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:89:in `block in merge'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1343:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:89:in `merge'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:138:in `validate_all'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:264:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:219:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:67:in `<main>'"]}
[2018-03-31T22:02:18,045][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (SystemExit) exit

```

Verified x-pack is installed.

```
/logstash-plugin list | grep x-pack
x-pack
```

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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:** [April 29, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-xpack-monitoring-enabled-hasnt-been-registered/126345/2 "2018-04-29T03:08:25Z")

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