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Configure settings

Learn how to configure infrastructure UI settings.

Required role

The Editor role or higher is required to configure settings. To learn more, refer to Assign user roles and privileges.

From the main Observability menu, go to Infrastructure → Inventory or Hosts, and click the Settings link at the top of the page. The following settings are available:

SettingDescription
Name
Name of the source configuration.
Indices
Index pattern or patterns used to match Elasticsearch indices that contain metrics. The default patterns are metrics-*,metricbeat-*.
Machine Learning
The minimum severity score required to display anomalies in the Infrastructure UI. The default is 50.
Features
Turn new features on and off.

Click Apply to save your changes.

If the fields are grayed out and cannot be edited, you may not have sufficient privileges to change the source configuration.

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