# Lowering Metricbeat Output Doc Count

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961 "2020-05-16T23:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ad3t0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ad3t0/32/68492_2.png) [@Ad3t0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ad3t0)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961/1 "2020-05-16T23:06:18Z")

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I have Metricbeat configured with default settings and it sends somewhere near 20 docs every 10 seconds. Is there a way to lower this amount ? All I want to use it for is metrics on the entire system not individual processes is there a way to disable that to save some space? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961/2 "2020-05-18T07:21:26Z")

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Hi,

pick metricsets that are interesting for you: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html)

You can also use the "drop\_event" processor and selected only the expected ones: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/drop-event.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/drop-event.html)

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**Author:** ![Ad3t0](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ad3t0/32/68492_2.png) [@Ad3t0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ad3t0)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961/3 "2020-05-18T19:32:01Z")

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Thank you so much! This pushed me in the right direction I was able to make it work exactly as intended.

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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:** [June 15, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lowering-metricbeat-output-doc-count/232961/4 "2020-06-15T19:32:08Z")

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