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title: Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
description: If you are running multiple Beat instances on the same host, make sure they each have a distinct path.data value. 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/beats/tree/main/reference/metricbeat/monitoring-shows-fewer-than-expected-beats
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# Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
If you are running multiple Beat instances on the same host, make sure they each have a distinct `path.data` value.