- Metricbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Contributing to Beats
- Getting started with Metricbeat
- Setting up and running Metricbeat
- Upgrading Metricbeat
- How Metricbeat works
- Configuring Metricbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse logs by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Set up logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- metricbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Aerospike module
- Apache module
- Ceph module
- Couchbase module
- Docker module
- Dropwizard module
- Elasticsearch module
- Golang module
- HAProxy module
- HTTP module
- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Kubernetes module
- Kubernetes container metricset
- Kubernetes event metricset
- Kubernetes node metricset
- Kubernetes pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_container metricset
- Kubernetes state_deployment metricset
- Kubernetes state_node metricset
- Kubernetes state_pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_replicaset metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
- Kubernetes volume metricset
- Memcached module
- MongoDB module
- MySQL module
- Nginx module
- PHP-FPM module
- PostgreSQL Module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- System module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
- Exported Fields
- Aerospike Fields
- Apache Fields
- Beat Fields
- Ceph Fields
- Cloud Provider Metadata Fields
- Common Fields
- Couchbase Fields
- docker Fields
- Docker Fields
- Dropwizard Fields
- Elasticsearch Fields
- Golang Fields
- HAProxy Fields
- HTTP Fields
- Jolokia Fields
- Kafka Fields
- Kibana Fields
- kubernetes Fields
- Kubernetes Fields
- Memcached Fields
- MongoDB Fields
- MySQL Fields
- Nginx Fields
- PHP-FPM Fields
- PostgreSQL Fields
- Prometheus Fields
- RabbitMQ Fields
- Redis Fields
- System Fields
- vSphere Fields
- Windows Fields
- ZooKeeper Fields
- Securing Metricbeat
- Troubleshooting
WARNING: Version 6.0 of Metricbeat has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Step 4: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editStep 4: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editMetricbeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations,
and searches for visualizing Metricbeat data in Kibana. Before you can use
the dashboards, you need to create the index pattern, metricbeat-*, and
load the dashboards into Kibana. To do this, you can either run the setup
command (as described here) or
configure dashboard loading in the
metricbeat.yml config file.
Starting with Beats 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API. This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration. You should have configured the endpoint earlier when you configured Metricbeat. If you didn’t, configure it now.
Make sure Kibana is running before you perform this step. If you are accessing a secured Kibana instance, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Metricbeat.
To set up the Kibana dashboards for Metricbeat:
deb, rpm, and mac:
From the directory where you installed Metricbeat, run:
./metricbeat setup --dashboards
docker:
docker run docker.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat:6.0.1 setup --dashboards
win:
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
From the PowerShell prompt, change to the directory where you installed Metricbeat, and run:
PS > metricbeat setup --dashboards