55<titleabbrev>Monitoring settings</titleabbrev> 
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8- By default, the Monitoring application  is enabled, but data collection
9- is disabled.   When you first start {kib} monitoring, you are prompted to
10- enable data  collection. If you are using {stack-security-features}, you must be
11- signed in as  a user with the `cluster:manage` privilege to enable
12- data collection. The  built-in `superuser` role has this privilege and the
13- built-in `elastic` user has  this role.
8+ By default, *{stack-monitor-app}*  is enabled, but data collection is disabled. 
9+ When you first start {kib} monitoring, you are prompted to enable data 
10+ collection. If you are using {stack-security-features}, you must be signed in as 
11+ a user with the `cluster:manage` privilege to enable data collection. The 
12+ built-in `superuser` role has this privilege and the built-in `elastic` user has 
13+ this role.
1414
1515You can adjust how monitoring data is
1616collected from {kib} and displayed in {kib} by configuring settings in the
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ For more information, see
4949  in {kib}  to the {es} monitoring cluster and to verify licensing status on the {es}
5050  monitoring cluster. +
5151  +
52-   Every other request performed by the Stack Monitoring UI  to the monitoring {es}
52+   Every other request performed by *{stack-monitor-app}*  to the monitoring {es}
5353  cluster uses the authenticated user's credentials, which must be the same on
5454  both the {es} monitoring cluster and the {es} production cluster. +
5555  +
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ For more information, see
6060  in {kib}  to the {es} monitoring cluster and to verify licensing status on the {es}
6161  monitoring cluster. +
6262  +
63-   Every other request performed by the Stack Monitoring UI  to the monitoring {es}
63+   Every other request performed by *{stack-monitor-app}*  to the monitoring {es}
6464  cluster uses the authenticated user's credentials, which must be the same on
6565  both the {es} monitoring cluster and the {es} production cluster. +
6666  +
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ These settings control how data is collected from {kib}.
8383|===
8484| `monitoring.kibana.collection.enabled`
8585  | Set to `true` (default) to enable data collection from the {kib} NodeJS server
86-   for {kib} Dashboards  to be featured in the Monitoring .
86+   for {kib} dashboards  to be featured in *{stack-monitor-app}* .
8787
8888| `monitoring.kibana.collection.interval`
8989  | Specifies the number of milliseconds to wait in between data sampling on the
@@ -96,16 +96,26 @@ These settings control how data is collected from {kib}.
9696[[monitoring-ui-settings]]
9797==== Monitoring UI settings
9898
99- These settings adjust how the {kib} Monitoring page  displays monitoring data.
99+ These settings adjust how *{stack-monitor-app}*  displays monitoring data.
100100However, the defaults work best in most circumstances. For more information
101101about configuring {kib}, see
102- {kibana-ref}/settings.html[Setting Kibana Server Properties ].
102+ {kibana-ref}/settings.html[Setting {kib} server properties ].
103103
104104[cols="2*<"]
105105|===
106106| `monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.logFetchCount`
107-   | Specifies the number of log entries to display in the Monitoring UI. Defaults to
108-   `10`. The maximum value is `50`.
107+   | Specifies the number of log entries to display in *{stack-monitor-app}*.
108+   Defaults to `10`. The maximum value is `50`.
109+ 
110+ | `monitoring.ui.enabled`
111+   | Set to `false` to hide *{stack-monitor-app}*. The monitoring back-end
112+     continues to run as an agent for sending {kib} stats to the monitoring
113+     cluster. Defaults to `true`.
114+   
115+ | `monitoring.ui.logs.index`
116+   | Specifies the name of the indices that are shown on the
117+   <<logs-monitor-page,*Logs*>> page in *{stack-monitor-app}*. The default value
118+   is `filebeat-*`.
109119
110120| `monitoring.ui.max_bucket_size`
111121  | Specifies the number of term buckets to return out of the overall terms list when
@@ -120,18 +130,13 @@ about configuring {kib}, see
120130  `monitoring.ui.collection.interval` in `elasticsearch.yml`, use the same
121131  value in this setting.
122132
123- | `monitoring.ui.enabled`
124-   | Set to `false` to hide the Monitoring UI in {kib}. The monitoring back-end
125-   continues to run as an agent for sending {kib} stats to the monitoring
126-   cluster. Defaults to `true`.
127- 
128133|===
129134
130135[float]
131136[[monitoring-ui-cgroup-settings]]
132137===== Monitoring UI container settings
133138
134- The Monitoring UI  exposes the Cgroup statistics that we collect for you to make
139+ *{stack-monitor-app}*  exposes the Cgroup statistics that we collect for you to make
135140better decisions about your container performance, rather than guessing based on
136141the overall machine performance. If you are not running your applications in a
137142container, then Cgroup statistics are not useful.
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