Set to true (default) to enable Elasticsearch X-Pack monitoring for Elasticsearch on the node.

Setting to -1 to disable data collection is no longer supported beginning with 7.0.0. [6.3.0] Deprecated in 6.3.0. Use xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled set to false instead.

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.

(time value) 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.

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.

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"]

Optional headers that are added to every request, which can assist with routing requests through proxies.

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.

Prevents the creation of specific cluster alerts. It also removes any applicable watches that already exist in the current cluster.

You can add any of the following watch identifiers to the list of blocked alerts:

For example: ["elasticsearch_version_mismatch","xpack_license_expiration"].