- Metricbeat Reference: other versions:
- Metricbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Metricbeat
- How Metricbeat works
- Configure
- Modules
- General settings
- Project paths
- Config file loading
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- append
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- translate_ldap_attribute
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Autodiscover
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- Feature flags
- metricbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Modules
- ActiveMQ module
- Aerospike module
- Airflow module
- Apache module
- AWS module
- AWS awshealth metricset
- AWS billing metricset
- AWS cloudwatch metricset
- AWS dynamodb metricset
- AWS ebs metricset
- AWS ec2 metricset
- AWS elb metricset
- AWS kinesis metricset
- AWS lambda metricset
- AWS natgateway metricset
- AWS rds metricset
- AWS s3_daily_storage metricset
- AWS s3_request metricset
- AWS sns metricset
- AWS sqs metricset
- AWS transitgateway metricset
- AWS usage metricset
- AWS vpn metricset
- AWS Fargate module
- Azure module
- Azure app_insights metricset
- Azure app_state metricset
- Azure billing metricset
- Azure compute_vm metricset
- Azure compute_vm_scaleset metricset
- Azure container_instance metricset
- Azure container_registry metricset
- Azure container_service metricset
- Azure database_account metricset
- Azure monitor metricset
- Azure storage metricset
- Beat module
- Ceph module
- Ceph cluster_disk metricset
- Ceph cluster_health metricset
- Ceph cluster_status metricset
- Ceph mgr_cluster_disk metricset
- Ceph mgr_cluster_health metricset
- Ceph mgr_osd_perf metricset
- Ceph mgr_osd_pool_stats metricset
- Ceph mgr_osd_tree metricset
- Ceph mgr_pool_disk metricset
- Ceph monitor_health metricset
- Ceph osd_df metricset
- Ceph osd_tree metricset
- Ceph pool_disk metricset
- Cloudfoundry module
- CockroachDB module
- Consul module
- Containerd module
- Coredns module
- Couchbase module
- CouchDB module
- Docker module
- Dropwizard module
- Elasticsearch module
- Elasticsearch ccr metricset
- Elasticsearch cluster_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch enrich metricset
- Elasticsearch index metricset
- Elasticsearch index_recovery metricset
- Elasticsearch index_summary metricset
- Elasticsearch ingest_pipeline metricset
- Elasticsearch ml_job metricset
- Elasticsearch node metricset
- Elasticsearch node_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch pending_tasks metricset
- Elasticsearch shard metricset
- Enterprise Search module
- Envoyproxy module
- Etcd module
- Google Cloud Platform module
- Google Cloud Platform billing metricset
- Google Cloud Platform carbon metricset
- Google Cloud Platform compute metricset
- Google Cloud Platform dataproc metricset
- Google Cloud Platform firestore metricset
- Google Cloud Platform gke metricset
- Google Cloud Platform loadbalancing metricset
- Google Cloud Platform metrics metricset
- Google Cloud Platform pubsub metricset
- Google Cloud Platform storage metricset
- Golang module
- Graphite module
- HAProxy module
- HTTP module
- IBM MQ module
- IIS module
- Istio module
- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Kubernetes module
- Kubernetes apiserver metricset
- Kubernetes container metricset
- Kubernetes controllermanager metricset
- Kubernetes event metricset
- Kubernetes node metricset
- Kubernetes pod metricset
- Kubernetes proxy metricset
- Kubernetes scheduler metricset
- Kubernetes state_container metricset
- Kubernetes state_cronjob metricset
- Kubernetes state_daemonset metricset
- Kubernetes state_deployment metricset
- Kubernetes state_job metricset
- Kubernetes state_node metricset
- Kubernetes state_persistentvolumeclaim metricset
- Kubernetes state_pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_replicaset metricset
- Kubernetes state_resourcequota metricset
- Kubernetes state_service metricset
- Kubernetes state_statefulset metricset
- Kubernetes state_storageclass metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
- Kubernetes volume metricset
- KVM module
- Linux module
- Logstash module
- Memcached module
- Cisco Meraki module
- MongoDB module
- MSSQL module
- Munin module
- MySQL module
- NATS module
- Nginx module
- Openmetrics module
- Oracle module
- Panw module
- PHP_FPM module
- PostgreSQL module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- Redis Enterprise module
- SQL module
- Stan module
- Statsd module
- SyncGateway module
- System module
- System core metricset
- System cpu metricset
- System diskio metricset
- System entropy metricset
- System filesystem metricset
- System fsstat metricset
- System load metricset
- System memory metricset
- System network metricset
- System network_summary metricset
- System process metricset
- System process_summary metricset
- System raid metricset
- System service metricset
- System socket metricset
- System socket_summary metricset
- System uptime metricset
- System users metricset
- Tomcat module
- Traefik module
- uWSGI module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
- Exported fields
- ActiveMQ fields
- Aerospike fields
- Airflow fields
- Apache fields
- AWS fields
- AWS Fargate fields
- Azure fields
- Beat fields
- Beat fields
- Ceph fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Cloudfoundry fields
- CockroachDB fields
- Common fields
- Consul fields
- Containerd fields
- Coredns fields
- Couchbase fields
- CouchDB fields
- Docker fields
- Docker fields
- Dropwizard fields
- ECS fields
- Elasticsearch fields
- Enterprise Search fields
- Envoyproxy fields
- Etcd fields
- Google Cloud Platform fields
- Golang fields
- Graphite fields
- HAProxy fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- IBM MQ fields
- IIS fields
- Istio fields
- Jolokia fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kafka fields
- Kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Kubernetes fields
- KVM fields
- Linux fields
- Logstash fields
- Memcached fields
- MongoDB fields
- MSSQL fields
- Munin fields
- MySQL fields
- NATS fields
- Nginx fields
- Openmetrics fields
- Oracle fields
- Panw fields
- PHP_FPM fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- Prometheus fields
- Prometheus typed metrics fields
- RabbitMQ fields
- Redis fields
- Redis Enterprise fields
- SQL fields
- Stan fields
- Statsd fields
- SyncGateway fields
- System fields
- Tomcat fields
- Traefik fields
- uWSGI fields
- vSphere fields
- Windows fields
- ZooKeeper fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Understand logged metrics
- Common problems
- "open /compat/linux/proc: no such file or directory" error on FreeBSD
- Metricbeat collects system metrics for interfaces you didn’t configure
- Metricbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
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Metricbeat command reference
editMetricbeat command reference
editMetricbeat provides a command-line interface for starting Metricbeat and performing common tasks, like testing configuration files and loading dashboards.
The command-line also supports global flags for controlling global behaviors.
Use sudo
to run the following commands if:
-
the config file is owned by
root
, or -
Metricbeat is configured to capture data that requires
root
access
Some of the features described here require an Elastic license. For more information, see https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions and License Management.
Commands | |
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Exports the configuration, index template, ILM policy, or a dashboard to stdout. |
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Shows help for any command. |
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Manages the secrets keystore. |
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Manages configured modules. |
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Runs Metricbeat. This command is used by default if you start Metricbeat without specifying a command. |
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Sets up the initial environment, including the index template, ILM policy and write alias, and Kibana dashboards (when available). |
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Tests the configuration. |
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Shows information about the current version. |
Also see Global flags.
export
command
editExports the configuration, index template, ILM policy, or a dashboard to stdout. You can use this command to quickly view your configuration, see the contents of the index template and the ILM policy, or export a dashboard from Kibana.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat export SUBCOMMAND [FLAGS]
SUBCOMMANDS
-
config
-
Exports the current configuration to stdout. If you use the
-c
flag, this command exports the configuration that’s defined in the specified file. -
dashboard
-
Exports a dashboard. You can use this option to store a dashboard on disk in a module and load it automatically. For example, to export the dashboard to a JSON file, run:
metricbeat export dashboard --id="DASHBOARD_ID" > dashboard.json
To find the
DASHBOARD_ID
, look at the URL for the dashboard in Kibana. By default,export dashboard
writes the dashboard to stdout. The example shows how to write the dashboard to a JSON file so that you can import it later. The JSON file will contain the dashboard with all visualizations and searches. You must load the index pattern separately for Metricbeat.To load the dashboard, copy the generated
dashboard.json
file into thekibana/6/dashboard
directory of Metricbeat, and runmetricbeat setup --dashboards
to import the dashboard.If Kibana is not running on
localhost:5061
, you must also adjust the Metricbeat configuration undersetup.kibana
. -
template
-
Exports the index template to stdout. You can specify the
--es.version
flag to further define what gets exported. Furthermore you can export the template to a file instead ofstdout
by defining a directory via--dir
.
-
ilm-policy
-
Exports the index lifecycle management policy to stdout. You can specify the
--es.version
and a--dir
to which the policy should be exported as a file rather than exporting tostdout
.
FLAGS
-
--es.version VERSION
-
When used with
template
, exports an index template that is compatible with the specified version. When used withilm-policy
, exports the ILM policy if the specified ES version is enabled for ILM. -
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
export
command. -
--dir DIRNAME
-
Define a directory to which the template, pipelines, and ILM policy
should be exported to as files instead of printing them to
stdout
. -
--id DASHBOARD_ID
-
When used with
dashboard
, specifies the dashboard ID.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLES
metricbeat export config metricbeat export template --es.version 8.17.0 metricbeat export dashboard --id="a7b35890-8baa-11e8-9676-ef67484126fb" > dashboard.json
help
command
editShows help for any command.
If no command is specified, shows help for the run
command.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat help COMMAND_NAME [FLAGS]
-
COMMAND_NAME
- Specifies the name of the command to show help for.
FLAGS
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
help
command.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLE
metricbeat help export
keystore
command
editManages the secrets keystore.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat keystore SUBCOMMAND [FLAGS]
SUBCOMMANDS
-
add KEY
-
Adds the specified key to the keystore. Use the
--force
flag to overwrite an existing key. Use the--stdin
flag to pass the value throughstdin
. -
create
-
Creates a keystore to hold secrets. Use the
--force
flag to overwrite the existing keystore. -
list
- Lists the keys in the keystore.
-
remove KEY
- Removes the specified key from the keystore.
FLAGS
-
--force
-
Valid with the
add
andcreate
subcommands. When used withadd
, overwrites the specified key. When used withcreate
, overwrites the keystore. -
--stdin
-
When used with
add
, uses the stdin as the source of the key’s value. -
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
keystore
command.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLES
metricbeat keystore create
metricbeat keystore add ES_PWD
metricbeat keystore remove ES_PWD
metricbeat keystore list
See Secrets keystore for more examples.
modules
command
editManages configured modules. You can use this command to enable and disable
specific module configurations defined in the modules.d
directory. The
changes you make with this command are persisted and used for subsequent
runs of Metricbeat.
To see which modules are enabled and disabled, run the list
subcommand.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat modules SUBCOMMAND [FLAGS]
SUBCOMMANDS
-
disable MODULE_LIST
- Disables the modules specified in the space-separated list.
-
enable MODULE_LIST
- Enables the modules specified in the space-separated list.
-
list
- Lists the modules that are currently enabled and disabled.
FLAGS
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
modules
command.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLES
metricbeat modules list
metricbeat modules enable apache nginx system
run
command
editRuns Metricbeat. This command is used by default if you start Metricbeat without specifying a command.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat run [FLAGS]
Or:
metricbeat [FLAGS]
FLAGS
-
-N, --N
- Disables publishing for testing purposes. This option disables all outputs except the File output.
-
--cpuprofile FILE
- Writes CPU profile data to the specified file. This option is useful for troubleshooting Metricbeat.
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
run
command. -
--httpprof [HOST]:PORT
- Starts an http server for profiling. This option is useful for troubleshooting and profiling Metricbeat.
-
--memprofile FILE
- Writes memory profile data to the specified output file. This option is useful for troubleshooting Metricbeat.
-
--system.hostfs MOUNT_POINT
-
Specifies the mount point of the host’s filesystem for use in monitoring a host.
This flag is depricated, and an alternate hostfs should be specified via the
hostfs
module config value.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLE
metricbeat run -e
Or:
metricbeat -e
setup
command
editSets up the initial environment, including the index template, ILM policy and write alias, and Kibana dashboards (when available)
- The index template ensures that fields are mapped correctly in Elasticsearch. If index lifecycle management is enabled it also ensures that the defined ILM policy and write alias are connected to the indices matching the index template. The ILM policy takes care of the lifecycle of an index, when to do a rollover, when to move an index from the hot phase to the next phase, etc.
- The Kibana dashboards make it easier for you to visualize Metricbeat data in Kibana.
This command sets up the environment without actually running Metricbeat and ingesting data. Specify optional flags to set up a subset of assets.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat setup [FLAGS]
FLAGS
-
--dashboards
- Sets up the Kibana dashboards (when available). This option loads the dashboards from the Metricbeat package. For more options, such as loading customized dashboards, see Importing Existing Beat Dashboards in the Beats Developer Guide.
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
setup
command. -
--index-management
- Sets up components related to Elasticsearch index management including template, ILM policy, and write alias (if supported and configured).
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLES
metricbeat setup --dashboards metricbeat setup --index-management
test
command
editTests the configuration.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat test SUBCOMMAND [FLAGS]
SUBCOMMANDS
-
config
- Tests the configuration settings.
-
modules [MODULE_NAME] [METRICSET_NAME]
-
Tests module settings for all configured modules. When you run this command,
Metricbeat does a test run that applies the current settings, retrieves the
metrics, and shows them as output. To test the settings for a specific module,
specify
MODULE_NAME
. To test the settings for a specific metricset in the module, also specifyMETRICSET_NAME
. -
output
- Tests that Metricbeat can connect to the output by using the current settings.
FLAGS
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
test
command.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLES
metricbeat test config
metricbeat test modules system cpu
version
command
editShows information about the current version.
SYNOPSIS
metricbeat version [FLAGS]
FLAGS
-
-h, --help
-
Shows help for the
version
command.
Also see Global flags.
EXAMPLE
metricbeat version
Global flags
editThese global flags are available whenever you run Metricbeat.
-
-E, --E "SETTING_NAME=VALUE"
-
Overrides a specific configuration setting. You can specify multiple overrides. For example:
metricbeat -E "name=mybeat" -E "output.elasticsearch.hosts=['http://myhost:9200']"
This setting is applied to the currently running Metricbeat process. The Metricbeat configuration file is not changed.
-
-c, --c FILE
-
Specifies the configuration file to use for Metricbeat. The file you specify
here is relative to
path.config
. If the-c
flag is not specified, the default config file,metricbeat.yml
, is used. -
-d, --d SELECTORS
-
Enables debugging for the specified selectors. For the selectors, you can
specify a comma-separated
list of components, or you can use
-d "*"
to enable debugging for all components. For example,-d "publisher"
displays all the publisher-related messages. -
-e, --e
- Logs to stderr and disables syslog/file output.
-
--environment
-
For logging purposes, specifies the environment that Metricbeat is running in.
This setting is used to select a default log output when no log output is configured.
Supported values are:
systemd
,container
,macos_service
, andwindows_service
. Ifsystemd
orcontainer
is specified, Metricbeat will log to stdout and stderr by default. -
--path.config
- Sets the path for configuration files. See the Directory layout section for details.
-
--path.data
- Sets the path for data files. See the Directory layout section for details.
-
--path.home
- Sets the path for miscellaneous files. See the Directory layout section for details.
-
--path.logs
- Sets the path for log files. See the Directory layout section for details.
-
--strict.perms
-
Sets strict permission checking on configuration files. The default is
-strict.perms=true
. See Config file ownership and permissions for more information. -
-v, --v
- Logs INFO-level messages.
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