[role="xpack"]
[testenv="gold"]
[[configuring-monitoring]]
== Configuring monitoring in {es}
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<titleabbrev>Configuring monitoring</titleabbrev>
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If you enable the Elastic {monitor-features} in your cluster, there are two 
methods to collect metrics about {es}:

* <<collecting-monitoring-data>>
* <<configuring-metricbeat>>

To learn about monitoring in general, see 
{stack-ov}/xpack-monitoring.html[Monitoring the {stack}]. 

include::collecting-monitoring-data.asciidoc[]
include::configuring-metricbeat.asciidoc[]
include::indices.asciidoc[]