- Metricbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- 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
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Keep fields from events
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- metricbeat.reference.yml
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Aerospike module
- Apache module
- aws module
- Ceph module
- Couchbase module
- couchdb module
- Docker module
- Dropwizard module
- Elasticsearch module
- Elasticsearch ccr metricset
- Elasticsearch cluster_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch index metricset
- Elasticsearch index_recovery metricset
- Elasticsearch index_summary metricset
- Elasticsearch ml_job metricset
- Elasticsearch node metricset
- Elasticsearch node_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch pending_tasks metricset
- Elasticsearch shard metricset
- envoyproxy module
- Etcd module
- Golang module
- Graphite module
- HAProxy module
- HTTP module
- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Kubernetes module
- Kubernetes apiserver metricset
- 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 state_statefulset metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
- Kubernetes volume metricset
- kvm module
- Logstash module
- Memcached module
- MongoDB module
- MSSQL module
- Munin module
- MySQL module
- Nats module
- Nginx module
- PHP_FPM module
- PostgreSQL module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- System module
- System core metricset
- System cpu metricset
- System diskio metricset
- System filesystem metricset
- System fsstat metricset
- System load metricset
- System memory metricset
- System network metricset
- System process metricset
- System process_summary metricset
- System raid metricset
- System socket metricset
- System socket_summary metricset
- System uptime metricset
- traefik module
- uwsgi module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
- Exported fields
- Aerospike fields
- Apache fields
- aws fields
- Beat fields
- Ceph fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- Couchbase fields
- couchdb fields
- Docker fields
- Docker fields
- Dropwizard fields
- ECS fields
- Elasticsearch fields
- envoyproxy fields
- Etcd fields
- Golang fields
- Graphite fields
- HAProxy fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- Jolokia fields
- Kafka fields
- Kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Kubernetes fields
- kvm fields
- Logstash fields
- Memcached fields
- MongoDB fields
- MSSQL fields
- Munin fields
- MySQL fields
- Nats fields
- Nginx fields
- PHP_FPM fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- Prometheus fields
- RabbitMQ fields
- Redis fields
- System fields
- traefik fields
- uwsgi fields
- vSphere fields
- Windows fields
- ZooKeeper fields
- Monitoring Metricbeat
- Securing Metricbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
How central management works
editHow central management works
editThis functionality is in beta and is subject to change. The design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Beats central management uses a mechanism called configuration tags to group related configurations. You define configuration tags in the Central Management UI in Kibana after enrolling your first beat.
A configuration tag is a group of configuration blocks that you can apply to
one or more Beats. A tag can have configuration blocks for different types of
Beats. For example, you might have a tag called development that you use to
group all configurations that are valid for running Beats in your development
environment. The development tag might have:
- Two Metricbeat module configuration blocks: one that reads system metrics and another that reads metrics from Apache HTTP servers
- Two Filebeat module configuration blocks: one that reads Apache HTTP server logs and another that reads system logs
- One heartbeat monitor configuration block: checks that a public facing website is live.
- One Elasticsearch output configuration block that sends the output to your Elasticsearch development cluster
You apply the tag to any Beats that will use the configurations defined in the tag.
When the enrolled Beats run, each Beat uses the configuration blocks that are valid for its type.
You can add, modify, or remove configuration blocks from a tag. Any changes that you make to the configuration blocks in a tag are automatically applied to all Beats that have that tag.
You can add or remove tags to change the set of configuration blocks applied to
your Beats. For example, after you’ve tested configurations in your
development environment, you can remove the development tag and add a
production tag that has an Elasticsearch output configuration block for sending the
data to your production cluster.
You can apply multiple tags to a Beat. For example, instead of defining the
apache modules under the development tag as described earlier, you could
create a separate tag called apache that contains the Apache module
configurations, then apply the tag to all Beats running on Apache servers.
This would enable you to maintain your Apache module configurations under a
single tag, while also using a development tag to send output for some
instances to your development cluster.
You can apply as many tags as you need. Just keep in mind that the configurations for all assigned tags are merged, which means that you should not specify conflicting configurations. If there are errors in the configuration, you’ll see an Error status in the Central Management UI and need to look at the logs for the Beat to troubleshoot the problem.