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Expand Up @@ -116,7 +116,9 @@ If Logs stack monitoring is configured for a Beat, and custom container argument

## Connect to an external monitoring {{es}} cluster [k8s_connect_to_an_external_monitoring_elasticsearch_cluster]

If you want to connect to a monitoring {{es}} cluster not managed by ECK, you can reference a Secret instead of an {{es}} cluster in the `monitoring` section through the `secretName` attribute:
If you want to connect to a monitoring {{es}} cluster not managed by ECK, you can reference a Secret instead of an {{es}} cluster in the `monitoring` section through the `secretName` attribute.

The next example sends cluster metrics to a remote monitoring cluster not managed by ECK, whereas cluster logs are sent to a remote cluster handled by ECK:

```yaml
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1
Expand All @@ -143,7 +145,7 @@ spec:
```

1. The `secretName` and `name` attributes are mutually exclusive, you have to choose one or the other.
2. The `namespace` and `serviceName` attributes can only be used in conjunction with `name`, not with `secretName`.
2. The `namespace` and `serviceName` attributes can only be used in conjunction with `name`, not with `secretName`, and only to reference clusters managed by the same ECK instance.

The referenced Secret must contain the following connection information:

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -193,4 +195,4 @@ spec:
- name: filebeat
env:
- foo: bar
```
```
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