# Metricbeat MSSQL User Role required **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [November 20, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-user-role-required/256159 "2020-11-20T16:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kotha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kotha/32/79410_2.png) [@kotha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kotha)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-user-role-required/256159/1 "2020-11-20T16:25:09Z")
what is the minimum role required to gather stats for Metric MSSQL beat. Right now we are using **sysadmin** role, but there is a push back from the DBA in using that role for the user that collects the metrics for MSSQL ---
**Author:** ![bering](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bering/32/4044_2.png) [@bering](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bering)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-user-role-required/256159/2 "2020-11-23T06:33:40Z")
You could try the VIEW SERVER STATE combined with public as mention here [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/13006](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/13006) Microsoft has this article on the DMVs [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-dynamic-management-views/system-dynamic-management-views?view=sql-server-ver15](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-dynamic-management-views/system-dynamic-management-views?view=sql-server-ver15) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-mssql-user-role-required/256159/3 "2020-12-21T06:33:44Z")
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