Do I only need to run metricbeat setup once?

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Hi, this may be a dumb question, but important to my work.

I was encountering a huge problem that I fixed by doing a metricbeat setup before running. I had previously thought I could get away without doing it, which is helpful because it is slow.

My question is, can I do this once for a single beat, and not have to run setup for each beat I deploy? I'm hoping that once the templates and dashboards are loaded into kibana/elasticsearch, I won't have to run setup again.

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Are all the Metricbeats gonna be sending data into the same ES and use the same Kibana? I thought templates are loaded automatically when you start Metricbeat so you only need to load template once for setup if you are using one Kibana.

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Yes, the same ES cluster and kibana instance. I've had success only loading the template once, but wanted to make sure because I've had problems with templates in the past.

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You have to load the template for each new version of metricbeat too.

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