# Metricbeat knowing that a machine is turned on

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-knowing-that-a-machine-is-turned-on/188472>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-knowing-that-a-machine-is-turned-on/188472 "2019-07-02T10:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mouloud\_CHIKHOUNE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mouloud_chikhoune/32/46957_2.png) [@Mouloud\_CHIKHOUNE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mouloud_CHIKHOUNE)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-knowing-that-a-machine-is-turned-on/188472/1 "2019-07-02T10:06:26Z")

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Hi, how can I configure metricbeat to know if a given machine is turned on? Because when a machine "A" is turned off it doesn't return any data. Is there a mean to know from a machine "B" if machine "A" is turned off? I am using metricbeat 7.2. Thank you.

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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:** [July 30, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-knowing-that-a-machine-is-turned-on/188472/2 "2019-07-30T10:06:32Z")

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