# Elastic agent metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [November 20, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833 "2024-11-20T12:09:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![harshpanchal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@harshpanchal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harshpanchal)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833/1 "2024-11-20T12:09:53Z")

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Does the Elastic Agent, with the system integration enabled, expose system metrics in a way that Prometheus can consume them and then display them in Grafana for monitoring ?

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**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833/2 "2024-11-20T12:16:53Z")

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Hi,

Why would you want to push data that is already in Elastic to Prometheus?  
If you really need the data in Grafana for a specific usecase you should be able to add Elasticsearch as a [datasource to Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/elasticsearch/configure-elasticsearch-data-source/).

Best regards  
Wolfram

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**Author:** ![harshpanchal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@harshpanchal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harshpanchal)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833/3 "2024-11-20T12:22:48Z")

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Currently, I am using Node Exporter to collect system-level metrics, which are scraped by Prometheus and displayed in Grafana. However, I want a single agent or utility on my VMs that can handle both logging and metrics collection so is this configuration possible If you have any idea regarding this ?  
Thank you for your reply

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**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-metrics/370833/4 "2024-11-20T13:20:05Z")

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I don't think that makes sense. The Agent is only powerful if you also use it as part of the stack (Monitoring & Alerting, Central configuration, Updates, ...)

In fact, The Elastic Agent is also only an orchestrator that manages multiple tools (FileBeat, MetricBeat, ...).

So I don't think this will make sense for your usecase.