Configuring X-Pack

X-Pack comes bundled with security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, machine learning, and graph capabilities. By default, all of these features are enabled. However, one might not be interested in all the features it provides. One can selectively enable and disable the features that they are interested in from the elasticsearch.yml and kibana.yml configuration files.

Elasticsearch supports the following features and settings in the elasticsearch.yml file:

Feature	Setting	Description
Machine Learning	xpack.ml.enabled	Set this to false to disable X-Pack machine learning features
Monitoring	xpack.monitoring.enabled	Set this to false to disable Elasticsearch's monitoring features
Security	xpack.security.enabled	Set this to false to disable X-Pack security features
Watcher	xpack.watcher.enabled	Set this to false to disable Watcher

 

Kibana supports these features and settings in the kibana.yml file:

Feature	Setting	Description
Machine learning	xpack.ml.enabled	Set to false to disable X-Pack machine...