# Metricbeat host not showing on kibana as well as not creating index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-host-not-showing-on-kibana-as-well-as-not-creating-index/292567>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 21, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-host-not-showing-on-kibana-as-well-as-not-creating-index/292567 "2021-12-21T12:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-host-not-showing-on-kibana-as-well-as-not-creating-index/292567/9 "2021-12-22T18:34:01Z")

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Can you please format your code? It is Hard to read.. I can not tell what it is ... use the `</>` button

If you are using a config you found elsewhere is is hard to help.

The beat module does not do system metrics...

Please just install metricbeat on a remote host ... NOT the host that Elasticsearch is running on...  
make no changes, do not use the github config, and ONLY set the `output.elasticsearch` in the metribeat.yml and then run metricbeat.

```auto
# ---------------------------- Elasticsearch Output ----------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  hosts: ["elasticsearch_host:9200"] <!-- The Host Elasticsearch is running on

  # Protocol - either `http` (default) or `https`.
  #protocol: "https"

  # Authentication credentials - either API key or username/password.
  #api_key: "id:api_key"
  username: "elastic"
  password: "changeme"

```

You can also simply set this in the metricbeat.yml and metricbeat monitoring will be enabled and same to the same Elasticsearch.

```auto
# Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter.
monitoring.enabled: true

```

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