# Adding metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-metrics/147839>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 9, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-metrics/147839 "2018-09-09T04:31:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hulio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aca169/32.png) [@Hulio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hulio)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-metrics/147839/1 "2018-09-09T04:31:25Z")

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I installed metricbeat, but how can i add metrics to dashboard?  
I add index but in discover no data.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-metrics/147839/2 "2018-09-09T08:21:39Z")

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You should follow [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-getting-started.html), which goes into things like automatically setting up index patterns and dashboards 🙂

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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:** [October 7, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-metrics/147839/3 "2018-10-07T08:21:39Z")

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