How to run metricbeat as background process

Elastic Stack Beats
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I want to install metricbeat to monitor server metrics. I dont have internet connection on server so I have manually downloaded "metricbeat-oss-7.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" and running it through "./metricbeat -e" when I am closing ssh console metricbeat it stopped. Also I have tried "nohup ./metricbeat -e&" but same problem is happening.
How to start metricbeat as background process while working on "metricbeat-oss-7.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" this file.
Please help me out.

2

Do you haven't service for metricbeat after installation in /etc/systemd/system/ or /usr/lib/systemd/system/?

3

I have followed install guide for metricbeat. it does not showing anything regarding service.
Could you please help me, how to create service for metricbeat.

4

Please check both directories maybe the service already exists.

My service for metricbeat looks like this:
cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/metricbeat.service

[Unit]
Description=Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for metrics.
Documentation=https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/metricbeat
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]

Environment="BEAT_LOG_OPTS=-e"
Environment="BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS=-c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml"
Environment="BEAT_PATH_OPTS=-path.home /usr/share/metricbeat -path.config /etc/metricbeat -path.data /var/lib/metricbeat -path.logs /var/log/metricbeat"
ExecStart=/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat $BEAT_LOG_OPTS $BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS $BEAT_PATH_OPTS
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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--Download
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf metricbeat-7.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
cd metricbeat-7.3.2-darwin-x86_64/

--Modify metricbeat.yml to set the connection information

--Enable system module
./metricbeat modules enable system

--Start
./metricbeat setup
./metricbeat -e

I have followed this steps. After this steps there is no metricbeat.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system or /etc/systemd/system

6

What kind of OS do you have?

7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)

8

Are you able install service from rpm? Can you download rpm?

And install like this:
rpm -ivh service.rpm?

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