# Metricbeat showing wrong usage of memory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-showing-wrong-usage-of-memory/294147>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-showing-wrong-usage-of-memory/294147 "2022-01-12T11:11:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lalchand\_rajak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@lalchand\_rajak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lalchand_rajak)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2022, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-showing-wrong-usage-of-memory/294147/1 "2022-01-12T11:11:10Z")

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when I am using free -h command on server it's showing something else and metricbeat showing something else, attaching both snapshots.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/6/7685d9aa7eac12f5b2624b57fc319951e861de60.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/d/1dc0a51dc63ab67af845d66dfabc7b443fadfb19.png)

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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:** [February 9, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-showing-wrong-usage-of-memory/294147/2 "2022-02-09T13:11:45Z")

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