Metricbeat examples on ECK not working properly

I'm trying to setup ECK on Google Kubernetes Engine following the quickstart guides on ECK. I'm using the default configuration for Kibana and Metricbeat, and the index metricbeat-* exists on my Elasticsearch cluster. However, I cannot access useful info on any of the Kibana dashboards.

My Kibana config:

apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Kibana
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 7.14.1
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
    namespace: default
  config:
    status.allowAnonymous: true
    server.publicBaseUrl: "http://10.51.10.52:5601"
    xpack.security.authc.providers:
      basic.basic1:
        order: 0
      anonymous.anonymous1:
        order: 1
        credentials: "elasticsearch_anonymous_user" # kinda unsafe
  http:
    tls:
      selfSignedCertificate:
        disabled: true # kinda unsafe as well

Metricbeat config: (it's straight up copied from the examples)

apiVersion: beat.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Beat
metadata:
  name: metricbeat
spec:
  type: metricbeat
  version: 7.14.0
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
  kibanaRef:
    name: quickstart
  config:
    metricbeat:
      autodiscover:
        providers:
        - hints:
            default_config: {}
            enabled: "true"
          host: ${NODE_NAME}
          type: kubernetes
      modules:
      - module: system
        period: 10s
        metricsets:
        - cpu
        - load
        - memory
        - network
        - process
        - process_summary
        process:
          include_top_n:
            by_cpu: 5
            by_memory: 5
        processes:
        - .*
      - module: system
        period: 1m
        metricsets:
        - filesystem
        - fsstat
        processors:
        - drop_event:
            when:
              regexp:
                system:
                  filesystem:
                    mount_point: ^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)
      - module: kubernetes
        period: 10s
        host: ${NODE_NAME}
        hosts:
        - https://${NODE_NAME}:10250
        bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token
        ssl:
          verification_mode: none
        metricsets:
        - node
        - system
        - pod
        - container
        - volume
    processors:
    - add_cloud_metadata: {}
    - add_host_metadata: {}
  daemonSet:
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        affinity:
            nodeAffinity:
              requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
                nodeSelectorTerms:
                - matchExpressions:
                  - key: machine-type
                    operator: In
                    values:
                    - low-resource 
        serviceAccountName: metricbeat
        automountServiceAccountToken: true # some older Beat versions are depending on this settings presence in k8s context
        containers:
        - args:
          - -e
          - -c
          - /etc/beat.yml
          - -system.hostfs=/hostfs
          name: metricbeat
          volumeMounts:
          - mountPath: /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup
            name: cgroup
          - mountPath: /var/run/docker.sock
            name: dockersock
          - mountPath: /hostfs/proc
            name: proc
          env:
          - name: NODE_NAME
            valueFrom:
              fieldRef:
                fieldPath: spec.nodeName
        dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
        hostNetwork: true # Allows to provide richer host metadata
        securityContext:
          runAsUser: 0
        terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
        volumes:
        - hostPath:
            path: /sys/fs/cgroup
          name: cgroup
        - hostPath:
            path: /var/run/docker.sock
          name: dockersock
        - hostPath:
            path: /proc
          name: proc
---
# permissions needed for metricbeat
# source: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-kubernetes.html
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: metricbeat
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - ""
  resources:
  - nodes
  - namespaces
  - events
  - pods
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - "extensions"
  resources:
  - replicasets
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - apps
  resources:
  - statefulsets
  - deployments
  - replicasets
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - ""
  resources:
  - nodes/stats
  verbs:
  - get
- nonResourceURLs:
  - /metrics
  verbs:
  - get
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: metricbeat
  namespace: default
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: metricbeat
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: metricbeat
  namespace: default
roleRef:
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: metricbeat
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

The best I can get out of Kibana:

What am I doing wrong? I want to know If my nodes are overloaded or not. I want to view CPU usage, RAM, disk and internet traffic on my nodes and GKE cluster. If you know a better way to accomplish this, please do share it with me.

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