Hi everyone, i already used Metricbeat for the windows perfmon plugin in version 6.0.0-alpha2 to collect metrics from websites. now i was trying to replace 6.0.0-alpha2 with the 6.0.1 or 6.1.1 version, but it won't start the service on my Windows 2012 R2 server with an error, that the service wasn…

Try using: output.elasticsearch: # Array of hosts to connect to. hosts: ["ES_URL:Port"] index: "my-index-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" setup.template.name: "my-index" setup.template.pattern: "my-index-*" The indentation you had for those two setup options is wrong.

Metricbeat 6.x is not starting (Windows)

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andrewkroh (Andrew Kroh) January 2, 2018, 3:52pm 2

Try starting Metricbeat in the foreground (not as a Windows service).

PS> cd C:\Program Files\Metricbeat
PS C:\Program Files\Metricbeat> .\metricbeat.exe -e -d "*"

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Metricbeat 6.x is not starting (Windows)

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