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Installing X-Pack

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Installing X-Pack

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You must install Elasticsearch and Kibana before you install X-Pack. If you plan to use the X-Pack features in Logstash, you must also install Logstash before you install X-Pack. For more information, see:

You must install the version of X-Pack that matches the version of each product. For more information about product compatibility, see the Elastic Support Matrix.

To install X-Pack on the Elastic stack:

The following diagram provides an overview of the steps that are required to set up X-Pack on each product:

The X-Pack installation scripts require direct internet access to download and install X-Pack. If your servers don’t have internet access, you can manually download the X-Pack zip file and transfer it to a temporary directory on the offline machines. The plugins for Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash are all included in a single zip file. For more information about installing X-Pack on offline machines, see the product-specific X-Pack installation instructions.

Enabling and Disabling X-Pack Features

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By default, all X-Pack features are enabled. You can enable or disable specific X-Pack features in the elasticsearch.yml, kibana.yml, and logstash.yml configuration files.

Setting	Description
`xpack.graph.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable X-Pack graph features.
`xpack.ml.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable X-Pack machine learning features.
`xpack.monitoring.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable X-Pack monitoring features.
`xpack.reporting.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable X-Pack reporting features.
`xpack.security.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable X-Pack security features.
`xpack.watcher.enabled`	Set to `false` to disable Watcher.

For more information about which settings exist in each configuration file, see X-Pack Settings.

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