I've just followed the tutorial step by step to try to reproduce the problem but it worked on my Arch system
I'd suggest to double check that you are running metricbeat as root. Also that you have enabled system module by running sudo metricbeat modules enable system and that you have done the setup too by using sudo metricbeat setup -e
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