# Setup Marvel monitoring cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205 "2017-01-30T12:18:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Zaid\_Amir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zaid_Amir)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2017, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205/1 "2017-01-30T12:18:14Z")
Hi,
I'm reading the installation documentation for Marvel and this grabbed my attention:
> Configure Kibana to connect to your monitoring cluster by setting the elasticsearch\_url property in the kibana.yml configuration file. For example:
> elasticsearch\_url: "[http://es-mon-1:9200](http://es-mon-1:9200)"
Now this works well if I only want to install Marvel on Kibana and have the marvel indices stored on a different cluster. But what if I want to have my own Kibana dashboard as well to visualize my work cluster? How can I tell Kibana to use two different clusters?
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205/2 "2017-01-30T22:12:00Z")
@Zaid_Amir
In the kibana.yml, your monitoring cluster configuration is separate from the "production"-cluster.
So you'd have something like:
```auto
xpack:
monitoring:
elasticsearch:
url: "http://localhost:9210"
username: "kibana" # use built-in user
password: "changeme"
```
But your elasticsearch production url would still be:
```auto
elasticsearch.url: "http://localhost:9200"
```
So you can use Kibana to visualize your production data (on `9200`), but you'll also can use the monitoring plugin in Kibana to see what's being collected in your monitoring cluster (on `9210`).
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### Author:  [@Zaid\_Amir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zaid_Amir)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205/3 "2017-02-02T07:23:04Z")
@thomasneirynck
Is this supported in ES 2.4?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-marvel-monitoring-cluster/73205/4 "2017-03-02T07:23:05Z")
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