# Configuring Metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [July 20, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951 "2018-07-20T17:55:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![piedmont01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/piedmont01/32/33585_2.png) [@piedmont01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piedmont01)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951/1 "2018-07-20T17:55:38Z")

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Maybe it's me but the Elastic documentation isn't clear as to what's server and what's client ☹

I have installed metricbeat on several clients and they appear to be sending data to Elasticsearch.

But I don't have any dashboards? Do I need to install metricbeat on the Elasticsearch server similar to how I did it on the clients?

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**Author:** ![piedmont01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/piedmont01/32/33585_2.png) [@piedmont01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piedmont01)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951/2 "2018-07-20T18:27:34Z")

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After some digging I did find how to setup the dashboard through the clients yaml configuration. I've entered both the Kibana and Elasticsearch URL(s)

Now getting an error

Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing URL/file: Failed to unzip the archive: /tmp/tmp234608490/x.x.x.x:9200 is not a valid zip file

where x.x.x.x is the IP address in the configuration

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951/3 "2018-07-23T09:51:08Z")

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What's the command you are trying to run exactly?

Could you please share the output of the following command?

```auto
./metricbeat setup -e -d "*"

```

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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:** [August 20, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuring-metricbeat/140951/4 "2018-08-20T09:51:12Z")

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