# Metricbeat and Packetbeat **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [October 10, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809 "2018-10-10T10:01:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aviral\_srivastava](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviral_srivastava/32/98018_2.png) [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/1 "2018-10-10T10:01:46Z")
Hi, My Linux system configuration shows > cat /etc/os-release NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server" VERSION="7.4 (Maipo)" ID="rhel" ID\_LIKE="fedora" VARIANT="Server" VARIANT\_ID="server" VERSION\_ID="7.4" PRETTY\_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 (Maipo)" ANSI\_COLOR="0;31" CPE\_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise\_linux:7.4:GA:server" HOME\_URL="[https://www.redhat.com/](https://www.redhat.com/)" BUG\_REPORT\_URL="[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/)" REDHAT\_BUGZILLA\_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7" REDHAT\_BUGZILLA\_PRODUCT\_VERSION=7.4 REDHAT\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT="Red Hat Enterprise Linux" REDHAT\_SUPPORT\_PRODUCT\_VERSION="7.4" > uname -m x86\_64 Can I install any one of them : metricbeat 6.4.0 [RPM 64-bit] or metricbeat 6.4.0 [LINUX 64-bit] ? If not then why what does difference will it make, based on my system configuration ? Similarly for Packetbeat 6.4.0 ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/2 "2018-10-10T10:06:49Z")
You should really install using the RPM repo, it will make upgrades easier. ---
**Author:** ![aviral\_srivastava](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviral_srivastava/32/98018_2.png) [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/3 "2018-10-11T11:59:33Z")
Thanks for the reply. I have installed metricbeat-6.4.0-x86\_64.rpm I ran below commands from path: /home/appm curl -L -O [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.4.0-x86\_64.rpm](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.4.0-x86_64.rpm) sudo rpm -vi metricbeat-6.4.0-x86\_64.rpm According to the documentation, For rpm and deb, you’ll find the configuration file at `/etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml But metricbeat.yml, is also present at location : /home/appm/metricbeat-6.4.0-linux-x86\_64 folder Why I am getting this at 2 locations and which file to modify ? ---
**Author:** ![faulander](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/faulander/32/36344_2.png) [@faulander](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/faulander)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/4 "2018-10-11T12:47:38Z")
Correct location for metricbeat is /etc/metricbeat. It depends on the service installation, actually it doesn't matter where metricbeat.yml file is located, it's an arguments parsed to the metricbeat executable. Is your system running with SystemD? Then you can check: "/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/metricbeat.service" Line: ExecStart=/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml the argument passed with "-c" is the metricbeat.yml used. ---
**Author:** ![aviral\_srivastava](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviral_srivastava/32/98018_2.png) [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/5 "2018-10-16T17:38:34Z")
I started the metricbeat service using below command: sudo service metricbeat start Starting metricbeat (via systemctl): [OK] It looks like metricbeat started successfully. But I am not getting any data in my elasticsearch node. I am also not able to access logs from folder /var/log/metricbeat folder -bash: cd: metricbeat: Permission denied ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-and-packetbeat/151809/6 "2018-11-13T19:40:21Z")
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