# Metricbeat: grouping multiple metrics in one event
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [August 31, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940 "2017-08-31T05:57:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@keithn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keithn)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2017, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940/1 "2017-08-31T05:57:39Z")
Hi. Using the following configurations, I was not able to generate a single event containing multiple metrics (referring to [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/key-features.html#multiple-events-in-one](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/key-features.html#multiple-events-in-one)).
```
- module: system
metricsets: ["cpu", "memory", "fsstat"]
enabled: true
period: 30s
processes: ['.*']
```
Instead, I see 3 separate events generated at the same time. Is there a way to have CPU, Memory, Filesystem stats all grouped into a single event using Metricbeat? Thanks.
```
{
"@timestamp" => 2017 - 08 - 31 T05: 14: 55.858 Z,
"system" => {
"cpu" => {
"system" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"cores" => 2,
"softirq" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"idle" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"steal" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"irq" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"iowait" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"user" => {
"pct" => 0.0
},
"nice" => {
"pct" => 0.0
}
}
},
"beat" => {
"hostname" => "agent1",
"name" => "agent1",
"version" => "5.5.2"
},
"@version" => "1",
"host" => "agent1",
"metricset" => {
"rtt" => 134,
"module" => "system",
"name" => "cpu"
},
"type" => "metricsets",
"tags" => [
[0]
"beats_input_raw_event"
]
}{
"@timestamp" => 2017 - 08 - 31 T05: 14: 55.858 Z,
"system" => {
"memory" => {
"actual" => {
"used" => {
"pct" => 0.0828,
"bytes" => 159678464
},
"free" => 1769185280
},
"total" => 1928863744,
"swap" => {
"total" => 1073737728,
"used" => {
"pct" => 0.0,
"bytes" => 0
},
"free" => 1073737728
},
"used" => {
"pct" => 0.2328,
"bytes" => 449048576
},
"free" => 1479815168
}
},
"beat" => {
"hostname" => "agent1",
"name" => "agent1",
"version" => "5.5.2"
},
"@version" => "1",
"host" => "agent1",
"metricset" => {
"rtt" => 156,
"module" => "system",
"name" => "memory"
},
"type" => "metricsets",
"tags" => [
[0]
"beats_input_raw_event"
]
}{
"@timestamp" => 2017 - 08 - 31 T05: 14: 55.858 Z,
"system" => {
"fsstat" => {
"total_files" => 42590324,
"total_size" => {
"total" => 1123497676800,
"used" => 104752873472,
"free" => 1018744803328
},
"count" => 33
}
},
"beat" => {
"hostname" => "agent1",
"name" => "agent1",
"version" => "5.5.2"
},
"@version" => "1",
"host" => "agent1",
"metricset" => {
"rtt" => 1085,
"module" => "system",
"name" => "fsstat"
},
"type" => "metricsets",
"tags" => [
[0]
"beats_input_raw_event"
]
}
```
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### Author:  [@Yugendra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yugendra)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940/2 "2017-09-27T13:26:49Z")
Facing same issue.
Any updates on this?
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### Author:  [@keithn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/keithn)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940/3 "2017-10-10T16:55:30Z")
Hello. I'm still facing the same issue with Metricbeat 5.6.3. Any thoughts or suggestions for sending multiple metrics in a single event?
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940/4 "2017-10-12T10:11:46Z")
I think there is a misunderstanding here. What is meant by multiple metrics is that `steal`, `iowait` and others are all in the same event. It's not possible to merge multiple metricsets.
Perhaps you can share some background on why you would want that?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-grouping-multiple-metrics-in-one-event/98940/5 "2017-11-09T10:12:08Z")
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