Hi there, I have an issue here with metricbeat. I found out that if I change the hostname of my debian nodes (hostnamectl set-hostname FQDN), or if i add or remove IP addresses, i always have to restart metricbeat in order to receive the host metadata updated. Is this a bug, or it is simply this …

Changes of hostname or ip addresses does not updates host metadata until metricbeat restart on nodes

mmelyp (Manuel Mely) April 3, 2020, 3:39pm 3

You are right!

I overlooked the cache.ttl setting at metricbeat.yml.

Thank you very much. Issue solved.

Greetings and stay safe!

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