Hi
That is interesting. I did not know that metricbeat.yml wasn't the only place it loaded configuration from. And you are right because system.yml was found to be active in the folder.
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 INFO metricbeat start running.
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] Starting Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=2]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [service] Windows is interactive: false
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/cpu will start after 1.240549008s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/memory will start after 4.08918815s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] Starting Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/filesystem will start after 9.355313485s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Checking module configs from: C:\Monitoring\metricbeat-6.1.1-windows-x86_64/modules.d/*.yml
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Load config from file: C:\Monitoring\metricbeat-6.1.1-windows-x86_64\modules.d\system.yml
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Number of module configs found: 3
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors:
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] New condition regexp: map[system.filesystem.mount_point:\A/(?:sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)(?:(?-m:$)|/)]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors: drop_event, condition=regexp: map[system.filesystem.mount_point:\A/(?:sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)(?:(?-m:$)|/)]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors:
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 INFO Config reloader started
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Scan for new config files
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Load config from file: C:\Monitoring\metricbeat-6.1.1-windows-x86_64\modules.d\system.yml
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Number of module configs found: 3
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Remove module from stoplist: 16874904698020136409
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Add module to startlist: 16874904698020136409
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors:
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Remove module from stoplist: 6259003571077527891
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Add module to startlist: 6259003571077527891
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] New condition regexp: map[system.filesystem.mount_point:\A/(?:sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)(?:(?-m:$)|/)]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors: drop_event, condition=regexp: map[system.filesystem.mount_point:\A/(?:sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)(?:(?-m:$)|/)]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Remove module from stoplist: 8560891566631850026
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] Add module to startlist: 8560891566631850026
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [processors] Processors:
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 INFO Starting 3 runners ...
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] Starting Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=5]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] New runner started: 16874904698020136409
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] Starting Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=2]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/cpu will start after 8.083805826s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/network will start after 6.158962305s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] New runner started: 6259003571077527891
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/memory will start after 2.197573019s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/process_summary will start after 3.625392083s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/process will start after 7.509132001s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/filesystem will start after 4.207375251s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/fsstat will start after 4.55518703s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] Starting Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [cfgfile] New runner started: 8560891566631850026
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 DBG [module] system/uptime will start after 5.74342186s
2018-01-18T08:51:29+01:00 INFO Loading of config files completed.
2018-01-18T08:51:30+01:00 DBG [module] Starting metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=cpu, host=]
//Tonni