# Trying to configure Marvel on monitored node gets "Illegal User Settings"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703 "2017-01-05T15:51:12Z")
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### Author:  [@DonL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DonL)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/1 "2017-01-05T15:51:12Z")
I am attempting to follow the documentation to get marvel monitoring set up for my 2.4 cluster. The doc ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/marvel.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/marvel.html)) says to input this in the YAML config:
```auto
marvel.agent.exporters:
id1:
type: http
host: ["http://myhost"]
auth:
username: agent-user
password: password
```
I put in the actual host name, and the agent-user and password that I set up on the separate monitoring node. When I select Update I get the message "Illegal User Setting".
Any suggestions on how to get past this?
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### Author:  [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/2 "2017-01-05T16:59:34Z")
Hi Don,
> When I select Update I get the message "Illegal User Setting".
When you selected update where? On Elastic Cloud?
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### Author:  [@DonL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DonL)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/3 "2017-01-05T17:15:58Z")
Yes. I am on Elastic Cloud.
And now that I have my Kibana straightened out, It appears that you don't have to do this step in the documentation, as I seem to be able to see information in Marvel.
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### Author:  [@DonL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DonL)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/4 "2017-01-05T17:23:50Z")
So we can close this one out.
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### Author:  [@pickypg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pickypg)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/5 "2017-01-05T18:04:55Z")
Hi Don,
Yeah, Elastic Cloud automatically configures a lot of things that normal Elasticsearch / Kibana users must do themselves.
Glad that it worked out! I hope that you can upgrade to ES 5.x soon too.
Thanks,
Chris
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-configure-marvel-on-monitored-node-gets-illegal-user-settings/70703/6 "2017-02-02T18:05:16Z")
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