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[8.x][Docs] Add recommendations to collect all metrics for the best dashboard experience. (#17524)
* [Docs] Add recommendations to collect all metrics for the best dashboard experience. * Indentation alignment.
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docs/static/monitoring/monitoring-ea-dashboards.asciidoc

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* Under **Logs**, modify the log paths to match your {ls} environment.
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. Configure the integration to collect metrics.
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TIP: For the best experience with the {ls} dashboards, we recommend collecting all of the metrics. Turning off metrics will result in incomplete or missing visualizations.
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* Make sure that **Metrics (Elastic Agent)** is turned on (default), and **Metrics (Stack Monitoring)** is turned off.
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* Under **Metrics (Elastic Agent)**, make sure the {ls} URL setting
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**Configure the integration to collect metrics**
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* Make sure that **Metrics (Stack Monitoring)** is OFF, and that **Metrics (Elastic Agent)** is ON.
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TIP: For the best experience with the Logstash dashboards, we recommend collecting all of the metrics. Turning off metrics will result in incomplete or missing visualizations.
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* Make sure that **Metrics (Elastic Agent)** is turned on (default), and **Metrics (Stack Monitoring)** is turned off.
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* Set the {ls} URL to point to your {ls} instance. +
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By default, the integration collects {ls}
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monitoring metrics from `https://localhost:9600`. If that host and port number are not

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TIP: For the best experience with Stack Monitoring, we recommend collecting both `node` and `node_stats`. Turning off either of these will result in incomplete or missing visualizations.
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* Make sure that **Metrics (Stack Monitoring)** is turned on, and **Metrics (Elastic Agent)** is turned off, if you
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want to collect metrics from your {ls} instance.
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* Under **Metrics (Stack Monitoring)**, make sure the hosts setting

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TIP: For the best experience with Stack Monitoring, we recommend collecting both `node` and `node_stats` metricsets. Turning off either of these will result in incomplete or missing visualizations.
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Set the `hosts`, `username`, and `password` to authenticate with {ls}.
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By default, the module collects {ls} monitoring data from
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