[DOCS|Monitoring] Added text about first time opening Kibana Monitoring (#19460) (#19597)

* [DOCS|Monitoring] Added text about first time opening Kibana Monitoring

* [DOCS | Monitoring] Incorporated review comments on startup experience doc

* [DOCS] Fixes typo
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@ -36,12 +36,32 @@ locally, go to `http://localhost:5601/`. To access {kib} and view the
monitoring dashboards, you must log in as a user who has the `kibana_user`
and `monitoring_user` roles.
. Click **Monitoring** in the side navigation. This displays any cluster alerts
. In the side navigation, click *Monitoring*. The first time you open {kib}
monitoring, data collection is
disabled. You will be prompted to turn on data collection.
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If you have permission to turn on data collection and there is data in the cluster,
{kib} displays the monitoring dashboards. You'll see cluster alerts
that require your attention and a summary of the available monitoring metrics
for {es}, Logstash, {kib}, and Beats. To view additional information, click the
Overview, Nodes, Indices, or Instances links.
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[role="screenshot"]
image::images/monitoring-dashboard.png[Monitoring dashboard]
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If {kib} can't activate monitoring, here are some things to do:
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* If you don't have permission to activate monitoring,
contact your system administrator.
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* If {kib} can't find monitoring data, set the time filter to
“Last 1 hour”. When monitoring data appears in your cluster, the page
automatically refreshes with the monitoring summary.
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* Check your `xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.url` setting.
See <<monitoring-settings-kb, Monitoring Settings in Kibana>>.
image::monitoring/images/monitoring.jpg["Monitoring Dashboards",link="images/monitoring.jpg"]
include::cluster-alerts-license.asciidoc[]
include::beats-details.asciidoc[]

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@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
<titleabbrev>Monitoring Settings</titleabbrev>
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By default, monitoring is enabled. You can adjust how monitoring data is
By default, the Monitoring application is enabled, but data collection
is disabled. When you first start {kib} monitoring, you will be prompted to
enable data collection.
You can adjust how monitoring data is
collected from {kib} and displayed in {kib} by configuring settings in the
`kibana.yml` file. There are also `xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.*` settings,
which support the same values as <<settings,{kib} configuration settings>>.
@ -122,4 +126,5 @@ statistics. It also adds the calculated Cgroup CPU utilization to the
*Node Overview* page instead of the overall operating system's CPU
utilization. Defaults to `false`.
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image::settings/images/monitoring-es-cgroup-true.png["Elasticsearch Inside a Container",link="images/monitoring-es-cgroup-true.png"]
[role="screenshot"]
image::images/monitoring-containers.png[Elasticsearch Inside a Container]