# Metricbeat is not working out-of-the-box **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333 **Category:** Beats **Tags:** metricbeat **Created:** [September 12, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333 "2019-09-12T22:27:30Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Nee\_Defeng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nee_defeng/32/45771_2.png) [@Nee\_Defeng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nee_Defeng) #### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/1 "2019-09-12T22:27:30Z")
I followed the instructions and setup the metricbeat and Kibana dashboard, all default configurations. But it doesn't show a lot of metrics, please see the screenshot. Environment: Ubuntu 18.04, installed using deb approach. ![metricbeat](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/4/54a41031e7c3d41f6fb67df4a732f0d005f37741.png) ---
### Author: ![Michael\_Madden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_madden/32/46640_2.png) [@Michael\_Madden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Madden) #### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/2 "2019-09-24T15:14:04Z")
Hello, Thanks for reaching out. What version of metricbeat are you running on Ubuntu 18.04? Thanks, ---
### Author: ![Nee\_Defeng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nee_defeng/32/45771_2.png) [@Nee\_Defeng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nee_Defeng) #### Post date: [October 5, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/3 "2019-10-05T23:33:45Z")
Metricbeat 7.3.2 ---
### 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: [October 6, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/4 "2019-10-06T05:38:54Z")
Did you run `./metricbeat setup` before running`./metricbeat -e` ? What commands in what order did you run to configure metricbeat? Perhaps you may have just set up the dashboards without the index templates etc. ---
### Author: ![Nee\_Defeng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nee_defeng/32/45771_2.png) [@Nee\_Defeng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nee_Defeng) #### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/5 "2019-10-06T10:45:42Z")
hi Stephen, I can't recall the exact steps I did, and the environment was no longer available to reproduce the issue. But since I was able to see the number of processes in the dashboard, I would believe the setup of the index was done properly. ---
### 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: [October 6, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/6 "2019-10-06T14:04:14Z")
Ok...and actually if the setup is not completed correctly some of the metrics will show while others will not... A lot like your screen shot above. When you get a chance to try again perhaps look at [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-index-or-visualisations-for-metricbeat-system-overview-ecs/201490/2) post / thread it might help explain what might have happened. ---
### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system) #### Post date: [November 3, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-is-not-working-out-of-the-box/199333/7 "2019-11-03T14:04:28Z")
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