# Auditbeat system metric error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [May 11, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629 "2019-05-11T01:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![nt-josh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dfb087/32.png) [@nt-josh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nt-josh)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629/1 "2019-05-11T01:28:18Z")

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so we have a 6.7.1 es cluster. using auditbeat 6.7.1 i was able to run the kibana dashboard install with ./auditbeat setup. however it refuses to start because of no metricsets configured for system.

Someone else had this issue. I found any version of auditbeat 6.7.x i used didnt work, i had to download 6.6.2 to get system data ingested . (granted this is not supproted and some of the dashboard vizs didnt work but it was better than nothing)

was system metrics removed in 6.7.x for auditbeat?

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**Author:** ![nt-josh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dfb087/32.png) [@nt-josh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nt-josh)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629/2 "2019-05-23T19:07:45Z")

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So upgrading to auditbeat 6.8.0 makes system metrics work. With the exception of Linux Mint. which apparently there is already an issue for.

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/12177>

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**Author:** ![cwurm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cwurm/32/34882_2.png) [@cwurm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cwurm)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629/3 "2019-05-25T00:03:26Z")

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Hi @nt-josh, sorry for the troubles. Is Auditbeat now working for you?

If it is the issue in Github you link to (error message `Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: this metricset does not support OS family`) you can circumvent it by commenting out the `package` dataset of the `system` module. We are already working on a [fix](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/12289).

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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:** [June 15, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-metric-error/180629/4 "2019-06-15T00:03:26Z")

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