# How to check the CPU number from metricbeat?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803 "2016-12-13T02:20:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sitanxin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sitanxin)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803/1 "2016-12-13T02:20:35Z")
Hi All, it maybe a strange question. But how to get the number of CPU via metricbeat?
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803/2 "2016-12-13T08:28:52Z")
I think currently the only way is to enable the core metricset where you get an event for each core and then do a count. But that seems to be overcomplicated. Perhaps we should add the # of cores to the cpu metricset? @monica Any thoughts here or do I miss something?
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### Author:  [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803/3 "2016-12-13T10:02:45Z")
Indeed, the system module of Metricbeat doesn't export the number of cores, so you would need to calculate it Kibana as @ruflin suggested. Please create a [feature request in GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues) to export the number of CPU cores.
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### Author:  [@sitanxin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sitanxin)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803/4 "2016-12-13T10:23:57Z")
Hi @monica, appreciate for your help. Right now, we are still using csv to record such information statically. BTW, is there any possible to run the command via metricbeat, like "cat /etc/redhat-release"? So that we can get the OS version as well.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-the-cpu-number-from-metricbeat/68803/5 "2017-01-10T10:24:07Z")
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