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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://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2439/reference/beats/heartbeat/monitoring-shows-fewer-than-expected-beats

This applies to:
- Generally available in 9.0+ for Stack
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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.