# Kibana visualization - different ways to show filesystem usage
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 15, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762 "2017-05-15T12:34:43Z")
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### Author:  [@arun\_prasath1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun_prasath1)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/1 "2017-05-15T12:34:44Z")
I am suppose to show all the **filesystem (local and mounted) usage in kibana**. I could not understand how disk usage (free, available, total) can be shown from the files available using Kibana. I mean what visualization will work for filesystem usage, what fields to use in Y-axis and what sub-bucket type to use. Any help is appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/2 "2017-05-15T20:22:46Z")
Hello,
The best way to display this can be found inside the Metricbeat dashboards and you can see them in work easily by doing this:
1. Download and start Metricbeat (it is configured to ship logs to localhost by default, so no config would be needed in that case)
2. Install the Metricbeat dashboards. There is a script called `import_dashboards` inside your `metricbeat/scripts` folder.
3. Open the Kibana dashboard named `Metricbeat filesystem per Host` and you can see in the bottom of the dashboard a Data Table that shows disk space usage by drive, with total, available, used and used % stats.
It looks like this on my Windows machine:
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### Author:  [@arun\_prasath1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun_prasath1)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/3 "2017-05-16T17:16:10Z")
> [@Marius\_Dragomir](#):
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> Open the Kibana dashboard
Marius\_Dragomir @ I could see the filesystem usage for local filesystes but the server name is missing. I have multiple servers pushing metricbeat logs to ELK. How to get the filesystem usage for each and every server separately with servername. Here I do not know which server it is showing the filesystem usage. Correct me if I am seeing wrongly.
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/4 "2017-05-16T19:05:06Z")
You can always edit that Data Table and split it by `beat.hostname` or if you want some specific names for each server, you can change the `name` filed inside the `metricbeat.yml` file on each server to whatever you want to describe that server and then split the Data Table by `beat.name` which is how that setting is shipped inside the logs.
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### Author:  [@arun\_prasath1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun_prasath1)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/5 "2017-05-17T15:46:25Z")
In the metricbeat.yml, next to metricbeat.modules section there is line in the general section. so do I need to change the last line copied below to get the metric for hostname. how to split it by beat.hostname in the data table, could you please help me with some example or links about this.
metricbeat.modules:
#------------------------------- System Module -------------------------------
- module: system
metricsets:
- cpu
- load
- core
- diskio
- filesystem
- fsstat
- memory
- network
- process
enabled: true
period: 10s
processes: ['.\*']
#=============== General ========
# The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group
# all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
#name:
# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]
# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the
# output.
#fields:
# env: staging
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/6 "2017-05-17T16:12:51Z")
> [@arun\_prasath1](#):
>
> all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
>
> name:
You need to change this part. The name will show as `beat.name` field. `beat.hostname` is automatically generated from the network settings of that machine so whatever hostname you have set for that server it will be sent to Elasticsearch.
As for spliting the Data Table, after you edit the data table that I mentioned a few posts ago, you need to do the following steps:
1. Select "Add Sub-buckets"
2. Select "Split Table"
3. Select "Terms" as the `Sub-aggregation`
4. Select `beat.hostname` or `beat.name` as the Field and then click on the Run button.
This will show you a version of that table for each different server. It will look like this (i only have one server in this screenshot):
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### Author:  [@arun\_prasath1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arun_prasath1)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/7 "2017-05-17T19:26:40Z")
I was trying to create the new visualization to get the metrics, so could not see the metric options in y-axis. It seems there are many default metricbeat visualization in the dashboards in which there it exists options to split chart. This visualization I can use for detailed data report.
In the main page, I like to have the trend chart for the disk utilization(actual usage) for all my servers. I mean to have separate trend chart for all server to view the disk utilization. Is that possible in kibana ? I have to use the line chart for trend chart but how to get the graph for all the filesystems in one line chart. Any idea how I can achieve this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-different-ways-to-show-filesystem-usage/85762/8 "2017-06-14T19:26:40Z")
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