[role="xpack"] [[monitoring-settings]] === Monitoring Settings in Elasticsearch ++++ Monitoring Settings ++++ Monitoring is enabled by default when you install {xpack}. You can configure these monitoring settings in the `elasticsearch.yml` file. To adjust how monitoring data is displayed in the monitoring UI, configure {kibana-ref}/monitoring-settings-kb.html[`xpack.monitoring` settings] in `kibana.yml`. To control how monitoring data is collected from Logstash, configure {logstash-ref}/configuring-logstash.html#monitoring-settings[`xpack.monitoring` settings] in `logstash.yml`. For more information, see {xpack-ref}/xpack-monitoring.html[Monitoring the Elastic Stack]. [float] [[general-monitoring-settings]] ==== General Monitoring Settings `xpack.monitoring.enabled`:: Set to `false` to disable {es} {monitoring} for Elasticsearch on the node. [float] [[monitoring-collection-settings]] ==== Monitoring Collection Settings The `xpack.monitoring.collection` settings control how data is collected from your Elasticsearch nodes. `xpack.monitoring.collection.cluster.stats.timeout`:: Sets the timeout for collecting the cluster statistics. Defaults to `10s`. `xpack.monitoring.collection.indices`:: Controls which indices Monitoring collects data from. Defaults to all indices. Specify the index names as a comma-separated list, for example `test1,test2,test3`. Names can include wildcards, for example `test*`. You can explicitly include or exclude indices by prepending `+` to include the index, or `-` to exclude the index. For example, to include all indices that start with `test` except `test3`, you could specify `+test*,-test3`. + You can update this setting through the Cluster Update Settings API. `xpack.monitoring.collection.index.stats.timeout`:: Sets the timeout for collecting index statistics. Defaults to `10s`. `xpack.monitoring.collection.indices.stats.timeout`:: Sets the timeout for collecting total indices statistics. Defaults to `10s`. `xpack.monitoring.collection.index.recovery.active_only`:: Controls whether or not all recoveries are collected. Set to `true` to collect only active recoveries. Defaults to `false`. `xpack.monitoring.collection.index.recovery.timeout`:: Sets the timeout for collecting the recovery information. Defaults to `10s`. `xpack.monitoring.collection.interval`:: Controls how often data samples are collected. Defaults to `10s`. If you modify the collection interval, set the `xpack.monitoring.min_interval_seconds` option in `kibana.yml` to the same value. Set to `-1` to temporarily disable data collection. You can update this setting through the Cluster Update Settings API. `xpack.monitoring.history.duration`:: Sets the retention duration beyond which the indices created by a Monitoring exporter are automatically deleted. Defaults to `7d` (7 days). + -- This setting has a minimum value of `1d` (1 day) to ensure that something is being monitored, and it cannot be disabled. IMPORTANT: This setting currently only impacts `local`-type exporters. Indices created using the `http` exporter will not be deleted automatically. If both {monitoring} and {watcher} are enabled, you can use this setting to affect the {watcher} cleaner service too. For more information, see the `xpack.watcher.history.cleaner_service.enabled` setting in the <>. -- `xpack.monitoring.exporters`:: Configures where the agent stores monitoring data. By default, the agent uses a local exporter that indexes monitoring data on the cluster where it is installed. Use an HTTP exporter to send data to a separate monitoring cluster. For more information, see <>, <>, and {xpack-ref}/monitoring-cluster.html[Setting up a Separate Monitoring Cluster]. [float] [[local-exporter-settings]] ==== Local Exporter Settings The `local` exporter is the default exporter used by Monitoring. As the name is meant to imply, it exports data to the _local_ cluster, which means that there is not much needed to be configured. If you do not supply _any_ exporters, then Monitoring will automatically create one for you. If any exporter is provided, then no default is added. [source,yaml] ---------------------------------- xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_local: type: local ---------------------------------- `type`:: The value for a Local exporter must always be `local` and it is required. `use_ingest`:: Whether to supply a placeholder pipeline to the cluster and a pipeline processor with every bulk request. The default value is `true`. If disabled, then it means that it will not use pipelines, which means that a future release cannot automatically upgrade bulk requests to future-proof them. `cluster_alerts.management.enabled`:: Whether to create cluster alerts for this cluster. The default value is `true`. To use this feature, {watcher} must be enabled. If you have a basic license, cluster alerts are not displayed. [float] [[http-exporter-settings]] ==== HTTP Exporter Settings The following lists settings that can be supplied with the `http` exporter. All settings are shown as what follows the name you select for your exporter: [source,yaml] ---------------------------------- xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_remote: type: http host: ["host:port", ...] ---------------------------------- `type`:: The value for an HTTP exporter must always be `http` and it is required. `host`:: Host supports multiple formats, both as an array or as a single value. Supported formats include `hostname`, `hostname:port`, `http://hostname` `http://hostname:port`, `https://hostname`, and `https://hostname:port`. Hosts cannot be assumed. The default scheme is always `http` and the default port is always `9200` if not supplied as part of the `host` string. + [source,yaml] ---------------------------------- xpack.monitoring.exporters: example1: type: http host: "10.1.2.3" example2: type: http host: ["http://10.1.2.4"] example3: type: http host: ["10.1.2.5", "10.1.2.6"] example4: type: http host: ["https://10.1.2.3:9200"] ---------------------------------- `auth.username`:: The username is required if a `auth.password` is supplied. `auth.password`:: The password for the `auth.username`. `connection.timeout`:: The amount of time that the HTTP connection is supposed to wait for a socket to open for the request. The default value is `6s`. `connection.read_timeout`:: The amount of time that the HTTP connection is supposed to wait for a socket to send back a response. The default value is `10 * connection.timeout` (`60s` if neither are set). `ssl`:: Each HTTP exporter can define its own TLS / SSL settings or inherit them. See the <>. `proxy.base_path`:: The base path to prefix any outgoing request, such as `/base/path` (e.g., bulk requests would then be sent as `/base/path/_bulk`). There is no default value. `headers`:: Optional headers that are added to every request, which can assist with routing requests through proxies. + [source,yaml] ---------------------------------- xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_remote: headers: X-My-Array: [abc, def, xyz] X-My-Header: abc123 ---------------------------------- + Array-based headers are sent `n` times where `n` is the size of the array. `Content-Type` and `Content-Length` cannot be set. Any headers created by the Monitoring agent will override anything defined here. `index.name.time_format`:: A mechanism for changing the default date suffix for the, by default, daily Monitoring indices. The default value is `YYYY.MM.DD`, which is why the indices are created daily. `use_ingest`:: Whether to supply a placeholder pipeline to the monitoring cluster and a pipeline processor with every bulk request. The default value is `true`. If disabled, then it means that it will not use pipelines, which means that a future release cannot automatically upgrade bulk requests to future-proof them. `cluster_alerts.management.enabled`:: Whether to create cluster alerts for this cluster. The default value is `true`. To use this feature, {watcher} must be enabled. If you have a basic license, cluster alerts are not displayed. [[ssl-monitoring-settings]] :ssl-prefix: xpack.monitoring.exporters.$NAME :component: {monitoring} :verifies: :server!: include::ssl-settings.asciidoc[]