Clarify monitoring and monitoring.collection #9905
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yaauie
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Sep 14, 2018
| xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.password: "changeme" | ||
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| <1> If SSL/TLS is enabled on the production cluster, you must | ||
| <1> Turns monitoring on. Note that the |
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To me, this doesn't really make clear that it's a two-part problem. The clarifying "note" tells me that Elasticsearch needs to be configured in a certain way, but by the time we're here my head is entirely in configure-logstash mode (which means I assume this is still a setting that goes in the logstash.yml).
<1> Turns monitoring on in Logstash, enabling Logstash to send monitoring data to Elasticseach. Note that Elasticsearch will ignore any monitoring events it receives unless it is separately configured with
xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled: true.
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State that both
xpack.monitoring.enabledin Logstash config andxpack.monitoring.collection.enabledin Elasticsearch config are needed.