# Metricbeat data size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-data-size/165515>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-data-size/165515 "2019-01-24T02:21:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![neven.trelec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@neven.trelec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neven.trelec)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-data-size/165515/1 "2019-01-24T02:21:44Z")

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Hello,

we have setup metricbeat to collect the data from various VMs in our system and we have noticed that metricbeat data size vary significantly accross our VMs. This came as a bit of surprise to us since metricbeat configuration is the same accross our VMs so we expected to see similar metricbeat data size daily for each VM. But, daily metricbeat data size would vary significantly from 200MB to 1Gb of metricbeat data per VM and per day.  
Any idea what could be the cause that our metricbeat data vary significantly in size for daily metricbeat data?

Here is the list of configured modules in metricbeat.yml:

# cat metricbeat.yml

#========================== Modules configuration ============================  
metricbeat.modules:

#------------------------------- System Module -------------------------------

- module: system  
metricsets:
  - cpu
  - filesystem
  - fsstat
  - load
  - memory
  - network
  - process
  - process\_summary
  - uptime
  - core
  - diskio  
enabled: true  
period: 10s  
processes: ['.\*']  
process.include\_cpu\_ticks: false

Would appreciate any ideas.

Thanks,  
Neven

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**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:** [January 24, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-data-size/165515/2 "2019-01-24T02:26:25Z")

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How are you calculating data size across the VMs?

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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 21, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-data-size/165515/3 "2019-02-21T02:26:35Z")

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