Elastic Stack : Install Metricbeat2026/07/09

Install Metricbeat that collects metrics from System or Services.

For Metricbeat details, refer to the official site.
⇒ https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-modules.html

[1]

Install Metricbeat. Configure Elasticsearch repository before it.

root@dlp:~#

apt -y install metricbeat

[2]	Configure basic settings and start Metricbeat.

root@dlp:~#

vi /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml

# line 67 : if use Kibana, uncomment and specify output host
# if SSL is enabled on Kibana, hostname should be the same with the hostname in certs
# [username] and [password] is the admin user's one
# if using self-signed certificate, specify [ssl.verification_mode: none]

setup.kibana:
.....
  host: "https://dlp.srv.world:5601"
  protocol: "https"
  username: "elastic"
  password: "password"
  ssl.enabled: true
  ssl.verification_mode: none

# line 99 : specify output of Elasticsearch
# [username] and [password] is the admin user's one
# [ssl.certificate_authorities] is the cacert generated by Elasticsearch installation

output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  hosts: ["https://dlp.srv.world:9200"]

  protocol: "https"
  username: "elastic"
  password: "password"
  ssl.certificate_authorities: "/etc/elasticsearch/certs/http_ca.crt"

.....
.....

root@dlp:~#

vi /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.reference.yml

# line 61 : set items to collect data
# enable and disable to comment out and uncomment

- module: system
  metricsets:
    - cpu             # CPU usage
    - load            # CPU load averages
    - memory          # Memory usage
    - network         # Network IO
    - process         # Per process metrics
    - process_summary # Process summary
    - uptime          # System Uptime
    - socket_summary  # Socket summary
    #- core           # Per CPU core usage
    #- diskio         # Disk IO
    #- filesystem     # File system usage for each mountpoint
    #- fsstat         # File system summary metrics
    #- raid           # Raid
    #- socket         # Sockets and connection info (linux only)
    #- service        # systemd service information
  enabled: true
  period: 10s
  processes: ['.*']

# line 3043 : if use Kibana, uncomment and specify output host
# if SSL is enabled on Kibana, uncomment ssl related lines
# [username] and [password] is the admin user's one
# if using self-signed certificate, specify [ssl.verification_mode: none]

setup.kibana:

  # Kibana Host
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
  host: "https://dlp.srv.world:5601"

   # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  protocol: "https"
  username: "elastic"
  password: "password"

  # Optional HTTP path
  #path: ""

  # Optional Kibana space ID.
  #space.id: ""

  # Use SSL settings for HTTPS.
  ssl.enabled: true
  
.....
.....

  # after very careful consideration. It is primarily intended as a temporary
  # diagnostic mechanism when attempting to resolve TLS errors; its use in
  # production environments is strongly discouraged.
  # The default value is full.
  ssl.verification_mode: none

root@dlp:~#

systemctl enable --now metricbeat

[3]	Verify status the data has been collected normally.

# index list

root@dlp:~#

curl -u elastic --cacert /etc/elasticsearch/certs/http_ca.crt https://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/indices?v

Enter host password for user 'elastic':
health status index                                           uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size dataset.size
green  open   .internal.alerts-security.alerts-default-000001 pLfq98_1SbeGh_oI8_jomg   1   0          0            0       249b           249b         249b
yellow open   .ds-metricbeat-9.4.3-2026.07.09-000001          Nk25Ry-iSSW_kSUA1SYh1A   1   1         63            0    338.4kb        338.4kb      338.4kb
yellow open   test_index                                      J7NriUgETm2_PQAG8aFUdw   1   1          1            0      7.3kb          7.3kb        7.3kb
green  open   .ds-.workflows-events-2026.07.09-000001         HkoWywm4SNm6bPzDJjhAOg   1   0          0            0       249b           249b         249b

# document list on the index

root@dlp:~#

curl -u elastic --cacert /etc/elasticsearch/certs/http_ca.crt https://127.0.0.1:9200/.ds-metricbeat-9.4.3-2026.07.09-000001/_search?pretty

Enter host password for user 'elastic'
{
  "took" : 5,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : {
      "value" : 236,
      "relation" : "eq"
    },
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : ".ds-metricbeat-9.4.3-2026.07.09-000001",
        "_id" : "pqc9RJ8B0LOAoAIkajdW",
        "_score" : 1.0,
        "_ignored" : [
          "system.process.cmdline"
        ],
        "_source" : {
          "@timestamp" : "2026-07-09T00:18:13.383Z",
          "service" : {
            "type" : "system"
          },
          "process" : {
.....
.....

[4]	If Kibana is running, it's possible to import data to sample Dashboards.

root@dlp:~#

metricbeat setup --dashboards

Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Loaded dashboards

Matched Content