# Activating "system.process.cpu.total.ticks"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991 "2017-02-14T08:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![olivierpt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@olivierpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olivierpt)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/1 "2017-02-14T08:53:51Z")

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Hi,

The Metricbeat Exported Fields documentation that the System module should allow to get a "system.process.cpu.total.ticks" field.  
But I don't manage to get it and I can't find the option to activate this field.

Anyone already managed to get this field from Metrcibeat? How should I configure it?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/2 "2017-02-14T11:05:55Z")

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It should be the `cpu_ticks: true` option from the system module. See the `metricbeat.full.yml` file for an example.

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**Author:** ![olivierpt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@olivierpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olivierpt)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/3 "2017-02-14T12:30:18Z")

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Hi did test this option with metricbeat 5.1.2 and I re-tested it today with version 5.2.0, both are not providing the info.  
Actually, these option only affect the CPU and CORE modules but not the PROCESS module.

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/4 "2017-02-14T12:51:39Z")

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Indeed, this looks like a bug. Can you open a Github ticket, please?

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**Author:** ![olivierpt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@olivierpt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/olivierpt)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/5 "2017-02-14T13:57:22Z")

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Done : #3590

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activating-system-process-cpu-total-ticks/74991/6 "2017-03-14T13:57:57Z")

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