Creating Dashboard according to beat.name or hostname?

Metricbeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and searches for visualizing Metricbeat data in Kibana. Set up instructions:

You can use the example Metricbeat dashboards as a starting point:

Then, you can view the dashboard for a single Metricbeat host by opening the base dashboard (with all hosts) and click Add a filter. Choose hostname, is, enter the hostname of the Metricbeat host you want to view, and Save.

If you don't want to change the filter every time to view a different host, you can create a dashboard for each host by clicking Clone. You may want to modify the name of the cloned dashboard to include the name of the corresponding Metricbeat host. Modify the hostname filter for each dashboard as needed.

Alternatively, you could also split up Metricbeat indices by host, which will avoid the need to add a filter to the dashboard, but may be inefficient: