Best way to install Metricbeat on hundreds of machines

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Hi. what will be the best way to install metricbeat in hundreds of machines?

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Search for software deployment tools
e.g.
Ansible
Chef
Jenkins
etc. etc.

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Thanks AClerk I was reading about ansible, in metricbeat the only way to monitor servers is through installed agents? there is no agentless monitoring?

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Ansible

Specifically, you can use Elastic's Ansible role for Beats to install Metricbeat en masse.

in metricbeat the only way to monitor servers is through installed agents? there is no agentless monitoring?

Correct. Metricbeat gathers stats only for the host it's installed on, then sends the data to some output (Elasticsearch, Logstash, etc).

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