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[DOC] Clarify supported realms when accessing remote monitoring clusters (#77938) (#78177)
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@@ -13,13 +13,19 @@ At a minimum, you must have monitoring data for the {es} production cluster.
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Once that data exists, {kib} can display monitoring data for other products in
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the cluster.
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TIP: If you use a separate monitoring cluster to store the monitoring data, it
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is strongly recommended that you use a separate {kib} instance to view it. If
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you log in to {kib} using SAML, Kerberos, PKI, OpenID Connect, or token
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authentication providers, a dedicated {kib} instance is *required*. The security
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tokens that are used in these contexts are cluster-specific, therefore you
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cannot use a single {kib} instance to connect to both production and monitoring
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clusters. For more information about the recommended configuration, see
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{ref}/monitoring-overview.html[Monitoring overview].
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. Identify where to retrieve monitoring data from.
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The cluster that contains the monitoring data is referred to
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as the _monitoring cluster_.
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TIP: If the monitoring data is stored on a *dedicated* monitoring cluster, it is
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If the monitoring data is stored on a dedicated monitoring cluster, it is
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accessible even when the cluster you're monitoring is not. If you have at least
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a gold license, you can send data from multiple clusters to the same monitoring
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cluster and view them all through the same instance of {kib}.

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