# Metrics

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/metrics/68.md?page=3

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## [Alert on Process failures only if existing](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-on-process-failures-only-if-existing/307172)

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**Author:** [@jeffo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeffo)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-on-process-failures-only-if-existing/307172 "2022-06-15T10:36:14Z")

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I'm relatively new to elastic, and I have a plethora of systems (windows) that all have unique monitoring requirements for processes with some overlap. We are running version 7.16.2. I can make alerts on a condition WH…

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## [Metricbeat can't make visualization due to null value in index fields value](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-make-visualization-due-to-null-value-in-index-fields-value/302996)

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**Author:** [@PRASHANT\_MEHTA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PRASHANT_MEHTA)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [May 13, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-make-visualization-due-to-null-value-in-index-fields-value/302996 "2022-05-13T16:47:57Z")

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Hello All, I am unable to create TSVB visulization TOP N in kibana,as I'm trying to display system.filesystem.used.pct of mount point but both these fiels have null values(-) in index. Any suggestion would be helpful! …

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## [Pod metrics Error in Metricbeat Kubernetes Overview ECS](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pod-metrics-error-in-metricbeat-kubernetes-overview-ecs/303626)

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**Author:** [@ktony](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ktony)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 29, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pod-metrics-error-in-metricbeat-kubernetes-overview-ecs/303626 "2022-04-29T17:44:07Z")

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Hello, I am currently trying to get our Kubernetes metrics using metricbeat deployed on ECK. We are getting the metrics for the Kubernetes cluster, however, the metrics we are getting is incorrect. We are seeing the iss…

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## [Metricbeat not collecting kubernetes.namespace field](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-not-collecting-kubernetes-namespace-field/303231)

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**Author:** [@marone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marone)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-not-collecting-kubernetes-namespace-field/303231 "2022-04-26T08:13:16Z")

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Hello, I'm using Elastic 7.15 for observability, I'm trying to collect metrics from each namespace but the field kubernetes.namespace is not collected. I added the processor add\_kubernetes\_metadata but still not collecti…

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## [Export Openshift metrics to an external ELK cluster](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-openshift-metrics-to-an-external-elk-cluster/303129)

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**Author:** [@yvan.l](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yvan.l)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-openshift-metrics-to-an-external-elk-cluster/303129 "2022-04-25T08:20:59Z")

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Hello We are running multiple Openshift Cluster with version 4.9.x Prometheus is monitoring openshift by default As we have an Internal (not inside openshift) ELK Cluster (7.16.2) We would like to forward metrics fro…

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## [Is it planned to support Openshift Metrics such as DeploymentConfig?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-planned-to-support-openshift-metrics-such-as-deploymentconfig/299312)

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**Author:** [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 15, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-planned-to-support-openshift-metrics-such-as-deploymentconfig/299312 "2022-04-15T09:41:37Z")

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Hi, as I noticed one cannot use metricbeat to retrieve metrics from objects like DeploymentConfig (maybe others) from Openshift. Is there a plan to make it possible ? Thanks

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## [Any way to have Custom Fields for Environment Variables within Metrics Inventory using Elastic Agent](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-have-custom-fields-for-environment-variables-within-metrics-inventory-using-elastic-agent/302466)

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**Author:** [@jtocher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jtocher)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-have-custom-fields-for-environment-variables-within-metrics-inventory-using-elastic-agent/302466 "2022-04-14T18:26:53Z")

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We've deployed Elastic Agent across our organization, and use the 'system' integration to grab system metrics from every VM. We view this in the Metrics App in Kibana. We have different environments - Development, Regre…

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## [What is proper configuration for metrics in elasticstack to reduce memory footprint?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-proper-configuration-for-metrics-in-elasticstack-to-reduce-memory-footprint/299950)

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**Author:** [@sokolmateusz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sokolmateusz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 14, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-proper-configuration-for-metrics-in-elasticstack-to-reduce-memory-footprint/299950 "2022-04-14T10:49:55Z")

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I'm using elasticstack for monitoring and logging our kubernetes cluster (with elasticsearch , filebeat , metricbeat , and kibana ). For some reason metricbeat collects unprecedented amount of data for just few pods (af…

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## [Getting MySQL Replication Metrics into Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-mysql-replication-metrics-into-kibana/300229)

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**Author:** [@yelloyonder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yelloyonder)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 7, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-mysql-replication-metrics-into-kibana/300229 "2022-04-07T12:10:56Z")

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Hi, I'm trying to find a way to ingest MySQL replication status into Kibana. We're using the Elastic Cloud Service and the MySQL integration. This provides a lot of MySQL status data for a database servers but nothing…

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## [Metricbeat MSSQL module has a really high batch req/sec number](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-module-has-a-really-high-batch-req-sec-number/297859)

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**Author:** [@ohs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ohs)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-module-has-a-really-high-batch-req-sec-number/297859 "2022-03-23T15:01:59Z")

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I have a question about metricbeat mssql module. The server I use it on has an on average batch req/sec like 5 and max about 60, but the value I receive in elastic and see in Kibana is over 19 millions. I can't figure ou…

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## [Recommendation or best practice for monitoring SystemD service state](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075)

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**Author:** [@yelloyonder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yelloyonder)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-or-best-practice-for-monitoring-systemd-service-state/296075 "2022-03-21T20:56:02Z")

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Hello, I would like to generate an alert if a service is not running, but I can't see a straight forward way to do this. I can monitor the process the service starts up, but I was curious if there was a good way to mon…

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## [Create New Fields from Metricbeat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-fields-from-metricbeat/299394)

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**Author:** [@personal.riz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/personal.riz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 11, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-fields-from-metricbeat/299394 "2022-03-11T04:37:56Z")

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Hi guys, i want to ask how to create new fields from metricbeat value like host.network.in.bytes for network monitoring. i want to create query PPL from metricbeat value but the value is null, i think because the value …

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## [Kibana Infrastructure UI shows no metrics for hosts](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-infrastructure-ui-shows-no-metrics-for-hosts/296268)

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**Author:** [@\_manukm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_manukm)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-infrastructure-ui-shows-no-metrics-for-hosts/296268 "2022-02-04T09:00:29Z")

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Continuing the discussion from Kibana Infrastructure UI shows no metrics for hosts or kubernetes pods: I am facing the exact same issue. @zx10r did you resolve this?

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## [Custom Metric For Drilldown Documents](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-metric-for-drilldown-documents/295535)

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**Author:** [@heshan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heshan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-metric-for-drilldown-documents/295535 "2022-01-27T18:50:56Z")

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{ "index" : { } } {"BATCH\_ID": "2021-08-19 08:27:16", "ENV":"DEV","TEST\_CASE": "test\_case2", "COMPARISON": "POL", "OLD\_PURCHASE\_ORDER\_NUMBER": "ADDQYU5B", "NEW\_PURCHASE\_ORDER\_NUMBER":"100018718", "OLD\_OC\_NUMBER":"U0056A…

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## [Pre-built/Community Rules for Monitoring/Observability?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-community-rules-for-monitoring-observability/295165)

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**Author:** [@BenB196](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BenB196)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-community-rules-for-monitoring-observability/295165 "2022-01-24T12:53:11Z")

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Hello All, I was wonder if Elastic has any plans to offer a repo/project similar to GitHub - elastic/detection-rules: Rules for Elastic Security's detection engine, but more for Metrics/Logging/Observability? While I kn…

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## [Metrics Disappearing](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-disappearing/292488)

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**Author:** [@dayajamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dayajamal)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metrics-disappearing/292488 "2021-12-21T16:47:03Z")

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Hello everyone, I have a very frustrating problem. Upon looking up my metrics, there is some data that is missing. Sometimes, I have metrics that appear, then disappear suddenly. The thing is, those metrics that are disa…

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## [Metric beat error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metric-beat-error/291899)

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**Author:** [@Deepanshu\_Saini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deepanshu_Saini)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 15, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metric-beat-error/291899 "2021-12-15T05:17:39Z")

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Hi Whenever , I am running cmd metricbeat -e -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml. I am getting following 2021-12-15T05:07:59.529Z ERROR mongodb/mongodb.go:98 Error establishing direct connection to mongo node at \[x.x.x.x:…

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## [Alerts on kubernetes.node.status. fields](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-on-kubernetes-node-status-fields/290780)

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**Author:** [@Hakim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hakim)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerts-on-kubernetes-node-status-fields/290780 "2021-12-02T16:49:33Z")

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Hi Elastic team, I'm looking to add alerts on boolean fields of kubernetes nodes starting with kubernetes.node.status. but when I try to create alerte rule for these fields there is no condition in Metric threshold for t…

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## [Error creating runner from config: 1 error: string value is not set accessing 'perfmon.queries.0.counters.1.name'](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-creating-runner-from-config-1-error-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-perfmon-queries-0-counters-1-name/289195)

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**Author:** [@tractor\_boy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tractor_boy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 22, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-creating-runner-from-config-1-error-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-perfmon-queries-0-counters-1-name/289195 "2021-11-22T10:37:05Z")

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Anyone able to decode the error "Error creating runner from config: 1 error: string value is not set accessing 'perfmon.queries.0.counters.1.name'" and explain what its trying to tell me? I have copied the example perfm…

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## [Oracle 32bit on 64bit machine](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/oracle-32bit-on-64bit-machine/289301)

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**Author:** [@sc19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sc19)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 16, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/oracle-32bit-on-64bit-machine/289301 "2021-11-16T11:33:26Z")

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Hello everyone, I have 32 bit two instances ORACLE database (test and production) on Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (64bit), and I want to install metricbeat service on that machine, but after instalation process, I've g…

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## [Stack monitoring with metricbeat procucing too much data? Getting timeouts](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-with-metricbeat-procucing-too-much-data-getting-timeouts/287158)

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**Author:** [@heikis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/heikis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 16, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stack-monitoring-with-metricbeat-procucing-too-much-data-getting-timeouts/287158 "2021-11-16T03:30:49Z")

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Hello. I have a problem that the Stack Monitoring page times out when trying to look at cluster overview at a period of 24h (or "today"). Cluster overview of "last 1 hour" works fine, but longer periods time out. Longer …

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## [Need to create unique index names for metric and filebeat where logs/metrics of one particular namespace would flow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-unique-index-names-for-metric-and-filebeat-where-logs-metrics-of-one-particular-namespace-would-flow/288580)

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**Author:** [@sidharth\_vijayakumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sidharth_vijayakumar)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 8, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-create-unique-index-names-for-metric-and-filebeat-where-logs-metrics-of-one-particular-namespace-would-flow/288580 "2021-11-08T01:47:44Z")

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Usually all logs/Metrics goes to a common index but need a solution where dev namespace logs goes to filebeat-dev-\* How do i do this in filebeat i do not have logstash or any pipelines

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## [ELK capabilities to replace traditional monitoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-capabilities-to-replace-traditional-monitoring/288445)

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**Author:** [@gbeltramelli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gbeltramelli)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-capabilities-to-replace-traditional-monitoring/288445 "2021-11-05T01:11:09Z")

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Hi, I am new to Elastic and in my organization we are thinking of eliminating NAGIOS as a monitoring tool so we are investigating the capabilities that this stack can give us. I have not been able to find how to replace…

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## [CPU usage alert reason is incorrect](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-alert-reason-is-incorrect/285964)

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**Author:** [@dyadav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dyadav)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 12, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cpu-usage-alert-reason-is-incorrect/285964 "2021-10-12T16:30:11Z")

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I have configured email alerts if CPU usage is above or equals 80% for last 2 minutes. Below is the content configured in my alert: {{alertName}} - {{context.group}} is in a state of {{context.alertState}} Reason: {{c…

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## [Metricbeat duplicated data in elastic cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-duplicated-data-in-elastic-cloud/283895)

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**Author:** [@Misagh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Misagh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-duplicated-data-in-elastic-cloud/283895 "2021-09-29T10:54:32Z")

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Hi there, I am using metricbeat to collect metrics from AWS cloudwatch and insert them into the elastic cloud environment. it works fine but there is an issue that I couldn't solve. there are duplicated data for one nam…

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## [Strange Behaviour in alerts](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-in-alerts/283539)

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**Author:** [@anyla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anyla)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-behaviour-in-alerts/283539 "2021-09-07T16:34:55Z")

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Hi, I'm starting to migrate our old nagios into the Elastic's Observability solution. When trying to do a simple Infrastructure alert if happens something strange. I define a CPU alert with a very low threshold (in or…

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## [What does Output Errors mean in Beats monitoring in Kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-output-errors-mean-in-beats-monitoring-in-kibana/283365)

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**Author:** [@tterranigma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tterranigma)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-output-errors-mean-in-beats-monitoring-in-kibana/283365 "2021-09-06T11:56:16Z")

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Hello, In the Stack Monitoring page in Kibana, in the beats section, there is a column called Output Errors. What is this about? I can't see errors in the logs of the remote beats that are being monitored. If it is abo…

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## [Metric beat does not install any module (error: line 101)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metric-beat-does-not-install-any-module-error-line-101/282951)

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**Author:** [@potap75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/potap75)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metric-beat-does-not-install-any-module-error-line-101/282951 "2021-08-31T22:27:26Z")

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Prod ELK v 7.11. monitoring cluster 7.11 Installed Metricbeat 7.13 on Logstash node to collect metrics. Have been following the steps in this guide: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/7.11/monitoring-with-metricbe…

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## [Metricbeat not accurate the value](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-not-accurate-the-value/282730)

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**Author:** [@selin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/selin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-not-accurate-the-value/282730 "2021-08-28T16:50:48Z")

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Hi can i know why the pid value is different in linux is 166 but in kibana showing 117 \[ps aux | wc -l 166 Also total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3789 …

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## [How to get only the average system metrics from Cloudwatch to Elasticsearch?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-only-the-average-system-metrics-from-cloudwatch-to-elasticsearch/282488)

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**Author:** [@missdoctor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/missdoctor)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 25, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-only-the-average-system-metrics-from-cloudwatch-to-elasticsearch/282488 "2021-08-25T13:02:13Z")

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Current setup: Cloudwatch collecting metrics from different namespaces and the data gets ingested to Elasticsearch. With the below configuration (i.e AWS/EC2 namespace, metric name: CPUUtilization) Cloudwatch is getting …

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