# Disk utilization in elk server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 7, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030 "2017-08-07T01:19:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Ankur\_Gupta1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ankur\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankur_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/1 "2017-08-07T01:19:04Z")

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Hello All,

I am very new in elk stack, i need to understanding can we add shell script output in in kibana dashboard.  
here is my requirement , i need to monitor my system disk utilization of two week , and the output of script i need to add in kibana dashboard.

Can you help me to understand to how i move forward ? .

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**Author:** ![Ankur\_Gupta1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ankur\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankur_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/2 "2017-08-07T01:23:01Z")

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Can we add disk motioning without third party tools like collectd ,Metricbeat ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/3 "2017-08-07T02:07:39Z")

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Metricbeat is the best for this.

We’ve also renamed ELK to the Elastic Stack, otherwise Beats feels left out 😉

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**Author:** ![Ankur\_Gupta1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ankur\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankur_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/4 "2017-08-07T04:23:12Z")

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Can we do monitoring without Metricbeat collectd ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/5 "2017-08-07T04:27:31Z")

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Yes, you can do that.

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**Author:** ![Ankur\_Gupta1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Ankur\_Gupta1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ankur_Gupta1)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/6 "2017-08-07T05:08:34Z")

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what steps need to follow that.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/7 "2017-08-07T08:00:04Z")

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Install collectd, configure it to send to Logstash, send that to Elasticsearch.

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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:** [September 4, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disk-utilization-in-elk-server/96030/8 "2017-09-04T08:00:06Z")

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