Monitoring Auditbeatedit

X-Pack monitoring enables you to easily monitor Auditbeat from Kibana. For more information, see Monitoring the Elastic Stack and Beats Monitoring Metrics.

To configure Auditbeat to collect and send monitoring metrics:

Create a user that has appropriate authority to send system-level monitoring data to Elasticsearch. For example, you can use the built-in logstash_system user or assign the built-in logstash_system role to another user. For more information, see Setting Up User Authentication and Built-in Roles.
Add the xpack.monitoring settings in the Auditbeat configuration file. If you configured Elasticsearch output and you want to use the same Elasticsearch production cluster and credentials, you can specify the following minimal configuration options:
```
xpack.monitoring:
  enabled: true
  elasticsearch:
```
Otherwise, you must specify additional configuration options. For example:
```
xpack.monitoring:
  enabled: true
  elasticsearch:
    hosts: ["https://example.com:9200", "https://example2.com:9200"]
    username: elastic
    password: changeme
```
Configure monitoring in Kibana.
To verify your monitoring configuration, point your web browser at your Kibana host, and select Monitoring from the side navigation. Metrics reported from Auditbeat should be visible in the Beats section. When X-Pack Security is enabled, to view the monitoring dashboards you must log in to Kibana as a user who has the kibana_user and monitoring_user roles.