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[[secure-monitoring]]
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=== Monitoring and security
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The {stack} {monitor-features} consist of two components:
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an agent that you install on on each {es} and Logstash node, and a Monitoring UI
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in {kib}. The monitoring agent collects and indexes metrics from the nodes
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and you visualize the data through the Monitoring dashboards in {kib}. The agent
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can index data on the same {es} cluster, or send it to an external
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monitoring cluster.
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To use the {monitor-features} with the {security-features} enabled, you need to
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{kibana-ref}/using-kibana-with-security.html[set up {kib} to work with the {security-features}]
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and create at least one user for the Monitoring UI. If you are using an external
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monitoring cluster, you also need to configure a user for the monitoring agent
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and configure the agent to use the appropriate credentials when communicating
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with the monitoring cluster.
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For more information, see:
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* <<monitoring-production>>
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* {kibana-ref}/monitoring-xpack-kibana.html[Configuring monitoring in {kib}]
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* {logstash-ref}/configuring-logstash.html[Configuring monitoring for Logstash nodes]
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