---
title: Universal Profiling settings in Kibana
description: 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3522/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/profiling-settings
products:
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Unavailable
---

# Universal Profiling settings in Kibana
Configure the following Universal Profiling settings in the `kibana.yml` file.
Universal Profiling is only available on Elastic Cloud Hosted.

## Universal Profiling settings
<definitions>
  <definition term="xpack.profiling.enabled">
    <stack-availability>Elastic Stack: Generally available since 8.5</stack-availability>
    <supported-on>Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available</supported-on>

Set to `true` to enable Universal Profiling, which provides always-on, fleet-wide continuous profiling. Available on Elastic Cloud Hosted only.
Datatype: `bool`
Default: `false`
  </definition>
</definitions>