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[DOCS] Updates Kibana setup step
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lcawl committed May 22, 2019
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. {metricbeat-ref}/metricbeat-starting.html[Start {metricbeat}].

. Verify that your monitoring data exists in ESMS.
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Open {kib} in your web browser. Use the {kib} URL and the administrator user ID
that was provided to you by the Elastic support team. Add an
{kibana-ref}/index-patterns.html[index pattern] and
{kibana-ref}/discover.html[explore] your monitoring data.
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To use collectors and exporters:
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each node. This method, however, requires you to restart each node.
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[discrete]
[[esms-kibana]]
=== Collecting monitoring data about {kib}
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metricsets:
- stats
period: 10s
hosts: ["http://localhost:5601"] <1>
hosts: ["KIBANA_URL"] <1>
xpack.enabled: true <2>
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<1> This setting identifies the host and port number that are used to access {kib}.
<1> This setting identifies the host and port number that you use to access
{kib}. For example, `http://localhost:5601`.
<2> This setting ensures that {kib} can read the monitoring data successfully.
That is to say, it's stored in the same location and format as monitoring data
that is sent by {ref}/es-monitoring-exporters.html[exporters].
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`https://localhost:5601` in the `modules.d/kibana.yml` file.

. Identify where to send the {kib} monitoring data and supply the necessary
security information. Add the following settings in the {metricbeat}
configuration file (`metricbeat.yml`):
security information. If you have not already done so, add the following
settings in the {metricbeat} configuration file (`metricbeat.yml`):
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[source,yaml]
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. {metricbeat-ref}/metricbeat-starting.html[Start {metricbeat}].

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. Verify that your monitoring data exists in ESMS.
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Open {kib} in your web browser. Use the {kib} URL and the administrator user ID
that was provided to you by the Elastic support team. If it doesn't already
exist, add an {kibana-ref}/index-patterns.html[index pattern] and
{kibana-ref}/discover.html[explore] your monitoring data.
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To use HTTP exporters:
TBD
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