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 more than 70 systems among others Apache, Ceph, Docker, Logstash, Jolokia, NGINX, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Prometheus and Redis. Full list of modules available in metricbeat modules list

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

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

Commands

metricbeat --help
metricbeat version
metricbeat test config
metricbeat test output
metricbeat setup
metricbeat setup --dashboards
metricbeat modules enable apache mysql
metricbeat modules list
metricbeat run
metricbeat keystore

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)
• Filebeat

See also

• metricbeat [ test | setup | modules | run ], metricbeat --help
• 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