# Do I only need to run metricbeat setup once?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089 "2019-08-06T19:09:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![carson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@carson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carson)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089/1 "2019-08-06T19:09:33Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089/2 "2019-08-08T03:38:24Z")

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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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**Author:** ![carson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@carson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carson)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089/3 "2019-08-08T12:51:21Z")

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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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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089/4 "2019-08-08T14:23:34Z")

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

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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 5, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-i-only-need-to-run-metricbeat-setup-once/194089/5 "2019-09-05T14:23:42Z")

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