# Metricbeat in Virtual machine gives huge network traffic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-in-virtual-machine-gives-huge-network-traffic/205647>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 29, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-in-virtual-machine-gives-huge-network-traffic/205647 "2019-10-29T10:58:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tuckson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tuckson)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-in-virtual-machine-gives-huge-network-traffic/205647/1 "2019-10-29T10:58:52Z")

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Hi,

Recently I installed metricbeat on my servers and use a grafana multy metrics dashboard to show stats. Quite catchy, however the results were shocking. The network out traffic appeared to be near 2 TB/s . Quite a lot for a virtual machine. This number indeed turns out to be the value in the index, so I suppose metricbeat is digging up these numbers.

Can it be it reports the traffic of the host, rather than just it's own virtual machine? If so, Is there a way to have metricbeat give just metrics for this specific server?

OS: RHEL 6.10  
Metricbeat is version 6.8.2

config is quite standard.  
So is fields.yml. Unfortunately I cannot find a way to attach files here? So I did not paste the enitre file, but if needed please say so.

Thnx

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-in-virtual-machine-gives-huge-network-traffic/205647/2 "2019-10-29T11:03:09Z")

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Hi @Tuckson 🙂

Please, paste your fields.yml, just use markdown syntax. It's important to see config and modules activated.

I don't find any reason why metricbeat must be sending so much data to ES. For the Metricbeat client, a VM should not have any difference with just a host.

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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:** [November 26, 2019, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-in-virtual-machine-gives-huge-network-traffic/205647/3 "2019-11-26T11:04:59Z")

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