# Metricbeat - collects the dockers memory size which is different from “docker stats”

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-collects-the-dockers-memory-size-which-is-different-from-docker-stats/277830>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, metricbeat\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-collects-the-dockers-memory-size-which-is-different-from-docker-stats/277830 "2021-07-05T12:01:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![SperChung-11](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sperchung-11/32/91170_2.png) [@SperChung-11](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SperChung-11)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-collects-the-dockers-memory-size-which-is-different-from-docker-stats/277830/1 "2021-07-05T12:01:35Z")

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Hi，I have met a problem as follows：

i have use metricbeat to collect docker memory, but found that the data of memory (suce as memory usage) was different from the "docker stats", is it right ?  
metricbeat: 7.6.0

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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:** [August 2, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-collects-the-dockers-memory-size-which-is-different-from-docker-stats/277830/2 "2021-08-02T14:01:49Z")

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