Metricbeat Logstash output more frequent than YML files specify

[fxr801]

Hi All,

I recently installed Metricbeat on a server with just the default System module, and CPU and Memory metricsets enabled.

I set the period in both the metricbeat and system YML files to be 10 seconds, and set the flush and logging periods to 10s as well for completeness.

When I view Logstash it's clear that the entries are coming in much more frequently than I specified in the YML files - they appear to be milliseconds apart. Does the period not set the timeframe that each log entry should cover, or have I missed a piece of configuration?

[ruflin]

Do you see just multiple events or multiple events of the same type? CPU, Memory etc. are all different events.

[fxr801]

Hi, thanks for the response. Each event is different, and there are only events for the metricsets that I have enabled.

I assumed that setting the period would result in the events being a culmination of the metrics for the period.

I have a 5 second refresh on my Logstash and can see new events coming in each refresh despite a 10 second period in the YMLs

[shaunak (Shaunak Kashyap)]

Hi, for maximum clarity, would you mind posting the following here?

• Your metricbeat.yml file,
• Your modules.d/system.yml file
• Your logstash.yml file?
• Your logstash pipeline (the one using the beats input)

Thanks,

Shaunak