Beat module
The beat module collects metrics about any Beat or other software based on libbeat.
The beat module works with Beats 7.3.0 and later.
The beat module can be used to collect metrics shown in our Stack Monitoring UI in Kibana. To enable this usage, set xpack.enabled: true and remove any metricsets from the module’s configuration. Alternatively, run metricbeat modules disable beat and metricbeat modules enable beat-xpack.
When this module is used for Elastic Stack Monitoring, it sends metrics to the monitoring index instead of the default index typically used by Metricbeat. For more details about the monitoring index, see Configuring indices for monitoring.
The Beat module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Modules. Here is an example configuration:
metricbeat.modules:
- module: beat
metricsets:
- stats
- state
period: 10s
hosts: ["http://localhost:5066"]
#ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
# Set to true to send data collected by module to X-Pack
# Monitoring instead of metricbeat-* indices.
#xpack.enabled: false
This module supports TLS connections when using ssl config field, as described in SSL. It also supports the options described in Standard HTTP config options.
The following metricsets are available: