# Gather metrics with lower resolution

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [April 29, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897 "2019-04-29T10:23:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_b/32/17104_2.png) [@A\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_B)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897/1 "2019-04-29T10:23:56Z")

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Hello,

I'm a longtime Elastic Stack user but new to _Metricbeat_. I installed it on a few machines last week to test it out and have a few questions 🙂

Is there a way to down sample or adjust the resolution of metrics? I thought that `period` in a module configuration would be how often metrics are _read_ but seams like it is how often metrics are _shipped_. Is that correct?

On of my tests is using the RabbitMQ module and I'm getting almost 5K metrics per minute from just one host. I guess every transaction gets its own metric. I could do with much less... Anyway to configure that?

Any tips are welcome 😃

-AB

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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:** [April 29, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897/2 "2019-04-29T17:12:50Z")

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Hello! `period` is set for how ofen the metricsets are excuted. The first thing about getting less metrics is to enable only the metricsets you need. For RabbitMQ, there are 4 different metricsets available: connection, exchange, node and queue: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-rabbitmq.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-rabbitmq.html)

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**Author:** ![A\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_b/32/17104_2.png) [@A\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_B)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897/3 "2019-04-30T14:53:31Z")

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Hi @Kaiyan_Sheng,

thank you very much for the reply. It will definitely help to configure which metricsets to ship 👍

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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 28, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gather-metrics-with-lower-resolution/178897/4 "2019-05-28T14:53:34Z")

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