# Issue with 32bit Counter Metricbeat 5.5 and 5.4.3 for Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-32bit-counter-metricbeat-5-5-and-5-4-3-for-windows/93473>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [July 17, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-32bit-counter-metricbeat-5-5-and-5-4-3-for-windows/93473 "2017-07-17T23:58:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![FrankS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/74df32/32.png) [@FrankS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FrankS)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-32bit-counter-metricbeat-5-5-and-5-4-3-for-windows/93473/1 "2017-07-17T23:58:26Z")

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Hi,  
I have some systems running server2012r2. I installed Metricbeat 5.5 to monitor the network traffic with this counter:  
System.network.in.bytes  
System.network.out.bytes

After 4GBytes of traffic the counter Startes again with 0 which means that this is a 32bit Counter?

I am using the metricbeat x64 binary 5.5 and 5.4.3 and the Index template shows that the type is "long".

To visualize the data i am using Kibana visual builder with aggregation 'derivative' and 'positive only.

Because i have a lot of traffic on the network i am reaching the 4GB limit after a short time.

How can i make sure that metribeat uses a counter with more than 4GB?

Frank

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-32bit-counter-metricbeat-5-5-and-5-4-3-for-windows/93473/2 "2017-07-19T01:15:05Z")

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This is a limitation of the data types used by Windows. [`MIB_IFROW`](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366836(v=vs.85).aspx) uses DWORD (aka uint32) to represent the values.

I haven't looked, but can these values be queries using Windows Performance Counters? Metricbeat 6.x is adding a module to collect perf counters. This might be an alternative.

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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:** [August 16, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-32bit-counter-metricbeat-5-5-and-5-4-3-for-windows/93473/3 "2017-08-16T01:15:51Z")

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