# Metricbeat downsample

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-downsample/371932
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-downsample/371932 "2024-12-12T20:38:08Z")
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### Author: ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-downsample/371932/1 "2024-12-12T20:38:08Z")

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I was looking to work on downsample. By reading this

[[Downsampling a time series data stream | Elasticsearch Guide [8.17] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/downsampling.html)]  
([Downsampling a time series data stream | Elasticsearch Guide [8.17] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/downsampling.html))

But it seems default metricbeat template that gets loaded when you turn on does not have any field with time\_series\_metric enable hence you can't downsample it. I was checking fields.yml which gets loaded as default template in /etc/metricbeat/

is this true? or am I missing something?