# Elastic metricbeat agent - standard memory/cpu usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-metricbeat-agent-standard-memory-cpu-usage/375701>\
**Category:** Elastic Observability\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-metricbeat-agent-standard-memory-cpu-usage/375701 "2025-03-11T11:36:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-metricbeat-agent-standard-memory-cpu-usage/375701/1 "2025-03-11T11:36:18Z")

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I would like to known for standard memory/cpu usage for metricbeat agent. (e.g. Memory 3%, CPU 3%)  
This's to convinct end customer that metricbeat agent does not consume too many memory/cpu resources.

By the way, cound I limit memory/cpu usage for metricbeat agent?