Configure Metricbeat

To get started quickly, read Quick start: installation and configuration.

To configure Metricbeat, edit the configuration file. The default configuration file is called metricbeat.yml. The location of the file varies by platform. To locate the file, see Directory layout.

There’s also a full example configuration file called metricbeat.reference.yml that shows all non-deprecated options.

See the Config File Format for more about the structure of the config file.

The following topics describe how to configure Metricbeat:

Modules
General settings
Project paths
Config file loading
Output
SSL
Index lifecycle management (ILM)
Elasticsearch index template
Kibana endpoint
Kibana dashboards
Processors
Autodiscover
Internal queue
Logging
HTTP endpoint
Regular expression support
Instrumentation
metricbeat.reference.yml

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