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[role="xpack"]
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[[local-exporter]]
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=== Local Exporters
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The `local` exporter is the default exporter in {monitoring}. It routes data
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back into the same (local) cluster. In other words, it uses the production
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cluster as the monitoring cluster. For example:
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[source,yaml]
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---------------------------------------------------
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xpack.monitoring.exporters.my_local_exporter: <1>
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type: local
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---------------------------------------------------
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<1> The exporter name uniquely defines the exporter, but it is otherwise unused.
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This exporter exists to provide a convenient option when hardware is simply not
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available. It is also a way for developers to get an idea of what their actions
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do for pre-production clusters when they do not have the time or resources to
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provide a separate monitoring cluster. However, this exporter has disadvantages
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that impact the local cluster:
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* All indexing impacts the local cluster and the nodes that hold the monitoring
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indices' shards.
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* Most collectors run on the elected master node. Therefore most indexing occurs
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with the elected master node as the coordinating node, which is a bad practice.
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* Any usage of {monitoring} for {kib} uses the local cluster's resources for
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searches and aggregations, which means that they might not be available for
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non-monitoring tasks.
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* If the local cluster goes down, the monitoring cluster has inherently gone
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down with it (and vice versa), which generally defeats the purpose of monitoring.
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For the `local` exporter, all setup occurs only on the elected master node. This
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means that if you do not see any monitoring templates or ingest pipelines, the
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elected master node is having issues or it is not configured in the same way.
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Unlike the `http` exporter, the `local` exporter has the advantage of accessing
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the monitoring cluster's up-to-date cluster state. It can therefore always check
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that the templates and ingest pipelines exist without a performance penalty. If
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the elected master node encounters errors while trying to create the monitoring
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resources, it logs errors, ignores that collection, and tries again after the
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next collection.
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The elected master node is the only node to set up resources for the `local`
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exporter. Therefore all other nodes wait for the resources to be set up before
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indexing any monitoring data from their own collectors. Each of these nodes logs
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a message indicating that they are waiting for the resources to be set up.
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One benefit of the `local` exporter is that it lives within the cluster and
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therefore no extra configuration is required when the cluster is secured with
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{security}. All operations, including indexing operations, that occur from a
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`local` exporter make use of the internal transport mechanisms within {es}. This
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behavior enables the exporter to be used without providing any user credentials
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when {security} is enabled.
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For more information about the configuration options for the `local` exporter,
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see <<local-exporter-settings>>.
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[[local-exporter-cleaner]]
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==== Cleaner Service
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One feature of the `local` exporter, which is not present in the `http` exporter,
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is a cleaner service. The cleaner service runs once per day at 01:00 AM UTC on
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the elected master node.
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The role of the cleaner service is to clean, or curate, the monitoring indices
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that are older than a configurable amount of time (the default is `7d`). This
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cleaner exists as part of the `local` exporter as a safety mechanism. The `http`
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exporter does not make use of it because it could enable a single misconfigured
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node to prematurely curate data from other production clusters that share the
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same monitoring cluster.
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In a dedicated monitoring cluster, the cleaning service can be used without
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having to also monitor the monitoring cluster. For example:
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[source,yaml]
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xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled: false <1>
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xpack.monitoring.history.duration: 3d <2>
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---------------------------------------------------
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<1> Disable the collection of data on the monitoring cluster.
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<2> Lower the default history duration from `7d` to `3d`. The minimum value is
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`1d`. This setting can be modified only when using a Gold or higher level
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license. For the Basic license level, it uses the default of 7 days.
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