Remote monitoring cluster configuration for Elasticsearch Service (formely Elastic Cloud)

elastic_cloud_remote_monitoring_cluster_configuration.md

PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent": {
    "xpack": {
      "monitoring": {
        "collection": {
          "enabled": "true",
          "interval": "10s"
        },
        "exporters": {
          "__no-default-local__": {
            "type": "local",
            "enabled": "false"
          },
          "found-user-defined": {
            "auth": {
               "username": "USER",
               "password": "PASS"
            },
            "host": [
              "https://EXTERNAL_URL_OF_MONITORING_CLUSTER"
            ],
            "type": "http",
            "enabled": "true"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

A user with at least remote_monitoring_agent role is required to write data in the remote .monitoring indexes of the monitoring cluster