# Filebeat Empty Monitoring Metrics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766 "2019-04-14T08:28:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Or\_Arnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/or_arnon/32/43677_2.png) [@Or\_Arnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Or_Arnon)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/1 "2019-04-14T08:28:51Z")

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Hi,

When monitoring Filebeat 6.7.1, we see some empty metrics:

## Throughput (/s), Fail Rates (/s), Output Errors (/s)

All of these are at 0. Our output is Kafka

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/2 "2019-04-16T08:48:18Z")

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Hi @Or_Arnon,

Did this started happening with 6.7.1?

Could you share your configuration?

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**Author:** ![Or\_Arnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/or_arnon/32/43677_2.png) [@Or\_Arnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Or_Arnon)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/3 "2019-04-16T09:15:35Z")

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Hi

We actually had the same issue with 6.5 and now with 6.7.1

```auto
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /ephemeral/log/haproxy/haproxy*
  fields_under_root: true
  json.keys_under_root: true
  json.add_error_key: true
  scan_frequency: 10s

filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  reload.enabled: true

filebeat.config.inputs:
  reload.enabled: true
  reload.period: 60s

output.kafka:
  enabled: true
  hosts: ["kafka1:9092","kafka2:9092"]
  worker: 2
  version: 2.0.0
  compression: snappy
  bulk_max_size: 4098
  required_acks: 0
  client_id: "filebeat"
  topic: "test_filebeat"

logging.level: info

http.enabled: true

xpack.monitoring:
  enabled: true
  elasticsearch:
    hosts: ["kibana1:9200","kibana2:9200"]

```

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/4 "2019-04-16T14:17:10Z")

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It seems that metrics collection is not supported in the Kafka output, there is an open issue about this: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9378](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9378)

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**Author:** ![Or\_Arnon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/or_arnon/32/43677_2.png) [@Or\_Arnon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Or_Arnon)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/5 "2019-04-22T11:36:03Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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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:** [May 20, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-empty-monitoring-metrics/176766/6 "2019-05-20T11:36:08Z")

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