Configure Metricbeat
editConfigure Metricbeat
editTo 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
- Feature flags
- metricbeat.reference.yml