Use internal collection to send monitoring data

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Use internal collection to send monitoring data

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Use internal collectors to send Beats monitoring data directly to your monitoring cluster.

To learn about monitoring in general, see Monitor a cluster.

Create a user that has appropriate authority to send system-level monitoring data to Elasticsearch. For example, you can use the built-in beats_system user or assign the built-in beats_system role to another user. For more information, see Grant privileges and roles needed for monitoring.

Add the monitoring settings in the Functionbeat configuration file. If you configured the Elasticsearch output and want to send Functionbeat monitoring events to the same Elasticsearch cluster, specify the following minimal configuration:

monitoring:
  enabled: true
  elasticsearch:
    username: beats_system
    password: somepassword

If you configured a different output, such as Logstash or you want to send Functionbeat monitoring events to a separate Elasticsearch cluster (referred to as the monitoring cluster), you must specify additional configuration options. For example:

monitoring:
  enabled: true
  cluster_uuid: PRODUCTION_ES_CLUSTER_UUID 
  elasticsearch:
    hosts: ["https://example.com:9200", "https://example2.com:9200"] 
    username: beats_system
    password: somepassword

	This setting identifies the Elasticsearch cluster under which the monitoring data for this Functionbeat instance will appear in the Stack Monitoring UI. To get a cluster’s `cluster_uuid`, call the `GET /` API against that cluster.
	This setting identifies the hosts and port numbers of Elasticsearch nodes that are part of the monitoring cluster.

Deploy Functionbeat.
View the monitoring data in Kibana.

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