# Disk IO not configured properly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357 "2019-02-14T08:16:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![iamashutosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamashutosh/32/39977_2.png) [@iamashutosh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamashutosh)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357/1 "2019-02-14T08:16:39Z")

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Hello Team,

I'm trying to add disk IO to metricbeat in system.yml. I'm using AWS EC2. The only option that is causing the problem is DiskIO, when I comment it, metricbeat starts.

Here is my config:

```
- module: system
  period: 10s
  metricsets:
    - cpu
    - load
    - memory
    - network
    - process
    - process_summary
    #- core
    - diskio:
        include_devices: ["nvme1n1","nvme0n1","nvme2n1p1"]
    #- socket
  process.include_top_n:
    by_cpu: 5 # include top 5 processes by CPU
    by_memory: 5 # include top 5 processes by memory

- module: system
  period: 1m
  metricsets:
    - filesystem
    - fsstat
  processors:
  - drop_event.when.regexp:
      system.filesystem.mount_point: '^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)'

- module: system
  period: 15m
  metricsets:
    - uptime

```

Please help me out here. Please give the exact change that I need to make as I'm new to this.

Regards,  
Ash.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357/2 "2019-02-14T16:04:38Z")

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Could you share your log file when you start with diskio enabled?

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**Author:** ![iamashutosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamashutosh/32/39977_2.png) [@iamashutosh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamashutosh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357/3 "2019-02-15T03:40:08Z")

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Hello Ruflin,

Here is my metricbeat log:

```
2019-02-14T13:41:24.714+0530 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:152 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":20,"time":{"ms":22}},"total":{"ticks":50,"time":{"ms":53},"value":0},"user":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":31}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":4096,"soft":1024},"open":6},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"f4a78969-e67b-4648-b2cb-1589d259f91c","uptime":{"ms":28}},"memstats":{"gc_next":6289520,"memory_alloc":3980112,"memory_total":9612248,"rss":36241408}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":8},"load":{"1":0.72,"15":0.85,"5":0.87,"norm":{"1":0.09,"15":0.1063,"5":0.1088}}}}}}
2019-02-14T13:41:24.714+0530 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 31.008117ms
2019-02-14T13:41:24.714+0530 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging.
2019-02-14T13:41:24.714+0530 INFO instance/beat.go:410 metricbeat stopped.
2019-02-14T13:41:24.716+0530 ERROR instance/beat.go:800 Exiting: 1 error: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing '0.metricsets.6' (source:'/etc/metricbeat/modules.d/system.yml')

```

I hope this helps, I'm sure there is some other way around this.

Regards,  
Ash.

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**Author:** ![iamashutosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iamashutosh/32/39977_2.png) [@iamashutosh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iamashutosh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357/4 "2019-02-15T03:59:33Z")

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Hello Ruflin,

I figured it out. Using the command `metricbeat test modules`, it gave me an error:

`Error getting metricbeat modules: error loading config files: invalid config: yaml: line 14: mapping values are not allowed in this context`

So, I commented the diskio in that section and created a new one, here is my new `system.yml`:

```
# Module: system
# Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.5/metricbeat-module-system.html

- module: system
  period: 10s
  metricsets:
    - cpu
    - load
    - memory
    - network
    - process
    - process_summary
    #- core
    #- diskio
    # include_devices: nvme1n1
    #- socket
  process.include_top_n:
    by_cpu: 5 # include top 5 processes by CPU
    by_memory: 5 # include top 5 processes by memory

- module: system
  period: 1m
  metricsets:
    - filesystem
    - fsstat
  processors:
  - drop_event.when.regexp:
      system.filesystem.mount_point: '^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)'

- module: system
  period: 15m
  metricsets:
    - uptime
    #- diskio
     
- module: system
  metricsets: ["diskio"]
  diskio.include_devices: ["nvme0n1", "nvme1n1","nvme2n1"]

```

Regards,  
Ash.

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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:** [March 15, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-io-not-configured-properly/168357/5 "2019-03-15T03:59:34Z")

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