# Metricbeat and kibana synchronisation!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436 "2020-01-24T14:20:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/1 "2020-01-24T14:20:16Z")

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I'am new in ELK tools ! i'am starting to minitor my own server with @172.16.0.179 !  
my elasticsearch @172.16.0.179:9200  
my kibana @172.16.0.179:5601  
i' already installed metricbeat to collect metrics from my system and i followed this guide step by step  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/current/get-started-elastic-stack.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/current/get-started-elastic-stack.html)  
now i didn't have any error even elasticsearch and kibana status are working(active)  
the problem that i can't visualise data on kibana dashboard !

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/3/53550c15676561ea735b4dfb2eef1d0c30089784.png)

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/2 "2020-01-24T15:39:28Z")

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What's the console output of Metricbeat if you run it with `-e -d "*"`. Does the data actually reaches Elasticsearch? You can see it in the discover view in Kibana

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/3 "2020-01-24T16:11:55Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/d/3dfaed2ccd87c2f810abdf6481a39ce9cb9a3844.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/0/a0370fcebc635935f1cefb84f62a90356f3ffe0a.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/9/a91ea384827768f02a08aa2653c6f8f6968702fe.png)  
i couldn't find the problem

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/4 "2020-01-24T16:12:53Z")

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Well, it's very clear that the line 5 of your YAML config file has something wrong 😃

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/5 "2020-01-24T16:22:09Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/efee1d69d2569ea66b32118d20960025f7de1fed.png)  
I could'nt find the error

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/6 "2020-01-27T08:01:47Z")

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no solution for my problem !????

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/7 "2020-01-27T10:01:19Z")

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Please, if you want help, can you attach a YAML and not an image of your YAML? Also, attach any other module config you may have in YAML

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/8 "2020-01-27T10:49:03Z")

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i solved the problem but in kibana display ican't see all the metrics 🥴 🥴

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/d/ad752bd55d4c82e273ad48919f499fe2e4cdb72e.png)  
even after uncommenting all system modules

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/b/ab301eda00f91018cee6003e3b8cd3a34a5de215.png)

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/9 "2020-01-27T10:52:48Z")

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Check if the data is visible in discover, please

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/10 "2020-01-27T10:58:45Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/62729b8653df0205602c3cfbc5a98e4be84c97d6.png)

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/11 "2020-01-27T13:51:54Z")

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Can you detail which version of the stack you are using? It seems some issue with Kibana. I'd try to edit the visualization that's not working as expected to see if it points you at the error.

Also try to update Kibana to the latest version to see if it solves the problem

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/12 "2020-01-27T14:29:18Z")

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i have stack V7.5.2

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/13 "2020-01-27T16:39:53Z")

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i think it's the last version !

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**Author:** ![tennaen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tennaen/32/87293_2.png) [@tennaen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tennaen)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/14 "2020-01-28T07:40:16Z")

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As i can see your logs, the problem is within mysql.yml

Error loading config from file '/etc/metricbeath/modules.d/mysql.yml', error invalid config: yaml: line 5: did not find expected key

Can you post it?

First of all try to disable mysql module: ${metricbeat\_home}/metricbeat modules disable mysql  
And after that start metricbeat.

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/15 "2020-01-28T09:03:46Z")

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in my first snapshot i couldn't display anything but i told you that i solved it i dit it by disabling mysql.yml  
now i can display only metrics sited in snapshot !

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**Author:** ![tennaen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tennaen/32/87293_2.png) [@tennaen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tennaen)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/16 "2020-01-28T09:10:30Z")

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Can you please paste your metricbeat.yml as formated text?

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**Author:** ![Annonyme1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Annonyme1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Annonyme1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/17 "2020-01-28T09:47:20Z")

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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:** [February 25, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-kibana-synchronisation/216436/18 "2020-02-25T09:47:23Z")

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