# Metricbeat build size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-build-size/165307>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-development\
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-build-size/165307 "2019-01-22T22:51:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bering](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bering/32/4044_2.png) [@bering](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bering)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-build-size/165307/1 "2019-01-22T22:51:23Z")

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I have built metricbeat.exe (version 6.5.4) from the x-pack directory x-pack/metricbeat.  
I have added a single extra custom module, and the build filesize is 60.534KB, the metricbeat.exe that i can download from [elastic.co](http://elastic.co) is 75.807KB

Does anyone know how the [elastic.co](http://elastic.co) metricbeat.exe is built?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-build-size/165307/2 "2019-01-25T11:26:57Z")

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For more details on how we build the binaries, best follow the source code from here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/Makefile#L162](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/Makefile#L162) There are quite a few steps involved.

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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 22, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-build-size/165307/3 "2019-02-22T11:27:10Z")

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