# Metricbeat process dropping

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 9, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454 "2017-08-09T14:18:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Braga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Daniel\_Braga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Braga)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454/1 "2017-08-09T14:18:35Z")

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Hello All. I am new with elastic products. I have elastic + logstash + kibana running. My problem is related to metricbeats. On one of my nodes, is working normally, however on the other, it keeps stopping after a couple hours. I have activated the debug, but the log doesnt say much:

It publishes content normally:  
2017-08-08T15:21:00-03:00 DBG Publish: {  
"@timestamp": "2017-08-08T18:21:00.388Z",  
"beat": {  
"  
And at the end of the log, i get this message:  
2017-08-09T10:56:59-03:00 DBG output worker: publish 672 events  
2017-08-09T10:56:59-03:00 DBG Try to publish 672 events to logstash with window size 688  
2017-08-09T10:56:59-03:00 DBG 672 events out of 672 events sent to logstash. Continue sending  
2017-08-09T10:56:59-03:00 DBG send completed

Any idea what should i do next?

OS: Linux  
metricbeat: 5.5.1

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454/2 "2017-08-09T22:07:29Z")

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The metricbeat process on your host is dying? How are you running it? What specific OS distro/version is this? And what config are you using?

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Braga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Daniel\_Braga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Braga)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454/3 "2017-08-10T11:36:55Z")

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Andrew,

Thank you very much for the reply. It turns out the process was dying with my session, because i cant use root. I was able to fix it.

Thanks again!

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-process-dropping/96454/4 "2017-08-10T14:07:31Z")

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