# How to monitor servers cpu, memory with kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 26, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682 "2015-11-26T14:40:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/1 "2015-11-26T14:40:43Z")

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Im getting information through collectd to logstash, filtering with elastic search, but i cannot make a graph with the usage of cpu or memory.

Is it possible?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/2 "2015-11-27T07:19:36Z")

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Providing more info would be useful.  
Why can you not create a graph?

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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/3 "2015-11-27T07:38:02Z")

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I'm not sure, i think is because the metrics agregation.  
I just can use: max, min, average, sum, count... there's not the absolute value. Maybe Max value Works for me but i don't know the right metric.  
I think there's not a lot of inofrmation about how to use collectd with kibana, ebcause i found a lot of manual with kibana 3 not 4 which is quite diferent.  
If anyone that had used that configuration could help me, it would be very useful.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/4 "2015-11-28T18:24:07Z")

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In this regard Kibana 3 isn't that different from Kibana 4. Both of them aggregate values and neither support showing every single value. However, is that really a problem? Wouldn't a max aggregation over a sufficiently small aggregation window work out pretty well?

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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/5 "2015-11-30T10:16:16Z")

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Hi Magnus,

I solved it using min value.

Thanks for the reply

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-monitor-servers-cpu-memory-with-kibana/35682/6 "2017-07-06T14:07:57Z")

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