---
title: System filesystem metricset
description: The System filesystem metricset provides file system statistics. For each file system, one document is provided. This metricset is available on: FreeBSD,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-metricset-system-filesystem
products:
  - Beats
  - Metricbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# System filesystem metricset
The System `filesystem` metricset provides file system statistics. For each file system, one document is provided.
This metricset is available on:
- FreeBSD
- Linux
- macOS
- OpenBSD
- Windows


## Configuration

**`filesystem.ignore_types`** - An array of filesystem types to ignore. Metrics will not be collected from filesystems matching these types. If this option is not set, Metricbeat ignores all types for virtual devices in systems where this information is available (e.g. all types marked as `nodev` in `/proc/filesystems` in Linux systems). This setting affects the `fsstats` metricset.
To have Metricbeat report on all filesystems, regardless of type, set `filesystem.ignore_types` to an empty array (`[]`).
To ignore unavailable volumes, such as CD-ROM drives, on Windows include `unavailable` as a value in the array. To ignore unknown filesystems on Windows, include `unknown` as a value in the array.

## Filtering

There may be mounted filesystems that you don’t want Metricbeat to report metrics on. One option is to configure Metricbeat to ignore specific filesystem types. This can be accomplished by configuring `filesystem.ignore_types` with an array of filesystem types to ignore. In this example we are ignoring three types of filesystems.
```yaml
metricbeat.modules:
  - module: system
    period: 30s
    metricsets: ["filesystem"]
    filesystem.ignore_types: [nfs, smbfs, autofs]
```

A common approach is to ignore any `unavailable` or `unknown` filesystems on Windows. For example:
```yaml
metricbeat.modules:
  - module: system
    period: 30s
    metricsets: ["filesystem"]
    filesystem.ignore_types: [unavailable, unknown]
```

Another strategy to deal with these filesystems is to configure a `drop_event` processor that matches the `mount_point` using a regular expression. This type of filtering occurs after the data has been collected so it can be less efficient than specifying `filesystem.ignore_types`.
```yaml
metricbeat.modules:
  - module: system
    period: 30s
    metricsets: ["filesystem"]
    processors:
      - drop_event.when.regexp:
          system.filesystem.mount_point: '^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host)($|/)'
```


## Fields

For a description of each field in the metricset, see the [exported fields](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/beats/metricbeat/exported-fields-system) section.
Here is an example document generated by this metricset:
```json
{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "event": {
        "dataset": "system.filesystem",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "system"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "filesystem",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "system"
    },
    "system": {
        "filesystem": {
            "available": 148708327424,
            "device_name": "/dev/mapper/fedora-root",
            "files": 105089024,
            "free": 148708327424,
            "free_files": 103974920,
            "mount_point": "/",
            "total": 215211835392,
            "type": "xfs",
            "used": {
                "bytes": 66503507968,
                "pct": 0.309
            }
        }
    }
}
```