# Make metricbeat put out the same data as "GET \_node/stats?"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-metricbeat-put-out-the-same-data-as-get-node-stats/220176
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, metricbeat
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-metricbeat-put-out-the-same-data-as-get-node-stats/220176 "2020-02-20T11:50:58Z")
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### Author: ![Mattness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mattness/32/52975_2.png) [@Mattness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mattness)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-metricbeat-put-out-the-same-data-as-get-node-stats/220176/1 "2020-02-20T11:50:58Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to create a custom stack monitoring dashboard. Essentially I want to custom 'fake' the already existing stack monitoring.

I added metricbeat with the modules "elasticsearch" & "elasticsearch-xpack" & I am running metricbeat via cmd ".\metricbeat.exe -e".

I created a matching index pattern in kibana & want to start visualizing my data. Only problem is that the logs/data I receive from metricbeat are either wrong or incomplete.

I get all the data I need via the kibana console with the queries:

GET /\_nodes/stats

GET /\_cluster/stats

GET /metricbeat-7.6.0-2020.02.20-000001/\_stats?pretty=true

GET /\_cluster/health?pretty=true

GET /\_cluster/pending\_tasks

Can I configure metricbeat to deliver this data? Am I doing something wrong? I am at the end of my tether and do not know what I could change in my metricbeat configuration (yml + modules) to improve the situation. Any help is appreciated.

On a related issue: I ran "metricbeat -setup" and it cluttered my kibana with empty dashboards ... is there a way to get rid of this or even better run the setup again with specified dashboard options? E.g. I do not need dashboards for apache or kubernetes stuff.

I am only interested in monitoring my cluster/nodes.

Regards 🙂

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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: [March 19, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-metricbeat-put-out-the-same-data-as-get-node-stats/220176/2 "2020-03-19T11:51:02Z")

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