Metricbeat

metricbeat is an Elastic software that allows to collect metrics from your systems and services. OS metrics such as CPU and memory or application metrics from Apache, Ceph, Docker, Logstash, Jolokia, NGINX, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Redis and more.

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat

• Installatin: apt install metricbeat
• Configuration file: metricbeat.yml
• Logs: Metricbeat logs

Commands

metricbeat version
metricbeat version 7.4.3 (amd64), libbeat 7.4.3 [unknown built unknown]

metricbeat test config
Config OK

metricbeat test output

metricbeat setup --dashboards

metricbeat modules enable apache mysql

metricbeat --strict.perms=false -system.hostfs=/hostfs

Ubuntu/Debian installation

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.9.3-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i metricbeat-7.9.3-amd64.deb

• Linux: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/setup-repositories.html

Activities

1. Install MetricBeat in your system using docker
2. Install MetricBeat on macOS: brew install metricbeat
3. Read MetricBeat source code https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/metricbeat and review repository https://github.com/elastic/beats
4. Read Beats Release Notes

Related terms

• sysstat: sar
• Prometheus Node exporter
• Zabbix agent
• Elasticsearch
• Icingabeat (2017)

See also

• Metricbeat, installation, metricbeat.yml, Metricbeat logs, Metricbeat changelog
• Elastic: ELK, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Installation, AWS Elasticsearch, Elastic SIEM, Elastic Beats, metricbeat, filebeat, journalbeat, Elastisearch Service , Search guard, Elasticsearch logs, curator, ILM, Lumberjack protocol, aws_elasticsearch_domain, KQL, elasticsearch.yml, elasticsearch-plugin, elasticsearch-certutil, Elasticsearch release notes/changelog
• Metric colletion tools: prometheus-node-exporter, metricbeat, sysstat, zabbix_agent, Icingabeat, Telegraf, AWS CloudWatch agent