Error getting list of running units

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Hi, I just installed metricbeat-oss-7.6.2-x86_64.rpm. I configured system.yml but when I run it as service I get errors in logs:

2020-05-20T14:52:44.744+0200 INFO module/wrapper.go:252 Error fetching data for metricset system.service: error getting list of running units: Unknown method 'ListUnitsByPatterns' or interface 'org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager'.

I guess It has something to do with rights and service metricset, /etc/metricbeat is owned by root. I also tried to run metricbeat with --strict.perms=false by defining in metricbeat.service:

ExecStart=/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat --strict.perms=false $BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS $BEAT_PATH_OPTS

But still getting same error, can anybody help?

System.yml

- module: system
  period: 5s
  metricsets:
    - cpu
    - load
    - memory
    - network
    - process
    - process_summary
    - service
    #- core
    - diskio
    #- socket
  processes: ['nginx','java','httpd']
  process.include_top_n:
    by_cpu: 5      # include top 5 processes by CPU
    by_memory: 5   # include top 5 processes by memory

- module: system
  period: 1m
  metricsets:
    - filesystem
    - fsstat
  processors:
  - drop_event.when.regexp:
      system.filesystem.mount_point: '^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)'

- module: system
  period: 15m
  metricsets:
    - uptime

#- module: system
#  period: 5m
#  metricsets:
#    - raid
#  raid.mount_point: '/'
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@Deny7 Can you give us more details on the operating system you're running this on? Metricbeat appears to be a native systemd service running as root, correct?

Can you send the output of the following:
gdbus introspect --system --dest org.freedesktop.systemd1 --object-path /org/freedesktop/systemd1 | grep ListUnits (this may require you to install an extra package)

systemctl --version

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Facing the same issue on CentOS, running metric beat system module,
Version of systemd is :

systemd 219
 +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 -SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN

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Can we enable some setting or other workaround to solve this, other then upgradation of systemd?

Kindly help!

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Tested with latest metricbeat 7.7, events are not generating for service metric set, also no clear error reported

Command output:
    [root@lux-00-00-02 metricbeat]# gdbus introspect --system --dest org.freedesktop.systemd1 --object-path /org/freedesktop/systemd1 | grep ListUnits
          ListUnits(out a(ssssssouso) arg_0);
          ListUnitsFiltered(in  as arg_0,
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