# Metricbeat stopping or getting killed 7.9.1

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**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-stopping-or-getting-killed-7-9-1/251099 "2020-10-06T10:12:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-stopping-or-getting-killed-7-9-1/251099/1 "2020-10-06T10:12:17Z")

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Hi

Metric beat stops sending the metrics to elastic. Looks like it is getting killed internally.

Logs as below  
2020-10-06T08:02:36.529+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":11530,"time":{"ms":490}},"total":{"ticks":19150,"time":{"ms":784},"value":19150},"user":{"ticks":7620,"time":{"ms":294}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":16000,"soft":16000},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"5d72ce05-f6ff-4075-9514-8c84b838ebbc","uptime":{"ms":781712}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":21988048,"memory\_alloc":11042136,"memory\_total":2006061880,"rss":1052672},"runtime":{"goroutines":71}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":3},"scans":3},"output":{"events":{"acked":65,"batches":3,"total":65}},"outputs":{"kafka":{"bytes\_read":392,"bytes\_write":27806}},"pipeline":{"clients":10,"events":{"active":0,"published":65,"total":65},"queue":{"acked":65}}},"metricbeat":{"system":{"cpu":{"events":3,"success":3},"filesystem":{"events":16,"success":16},"fsstat":{"events":1,"success":1},"load":{"events":3,"success":3},"memory":{"events":3,"success":3},"network":{"events":6,"success":6},"process":{"events":27,"success":27},"process\_summary":{"events":3,"success":3},"socket\_summary":{"events":3,"success":3}}},"system":{"load":{"1":0.02,"15":0.13,"5":0.09,"norm":{"1":0.0013,"15":0.0081,"5":0.0056}}}}}}  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.529+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":12020,"time":{"ms":494}},"total":{"ticks":19960,"time":{"ms":812},"value":19960},"user":{"ticks":7940,"time":{"ms":318}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":16000,"soft":16000},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"5d72ce05-f6ff-4075-9514-8c84b838ebbc","uptime":{"ms":811711}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":17943760,"memory\_alloc":16464696,"memory\_total":2088625008,"rss":-1150976},"runtime":{"goroutines":71}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":3},"scans":3},"output":{"events":{"acked":49,"batches":3,"total":49}},"outputs":{"kafka":{"bytes\_read":336,"bytes\_write":25192}},"pipeline":{"clients":10,"events":{"active":0,"published":49,"total":49},"queue":{"acked":49}}},"metricbeat":{"system":{"cpu":{"events":3,"success":3},"load":{"events":3,"success":3},"memory":{"events":3,"success":3},"network":{"events":6,"success":6},"process":{"events":28,"success":28},"process\_summary":{"events":3,"success":3},"socket\_summary":{"events":3,"success":3}}},"system":{"load":{"1":0.16,"15":0.14,"5":0.11,"norm":{"1":0.01,"15":0.0088,"5":0.0069}}}}}}  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.792+0100 INFO cfgfile/reload.go:190 Dynamic config reloader stopped  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.792+0100 INFO [reload] cfgfile/list.go:124 Stopping 3 runners ...  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.862+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":12020,"time":{"ms":12029}},"total":{"ticks":19960,"time":{"ms":19975},"value":19960},"user":{"ticks":7940,"time":{"ms":7946}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":16000,"soft":16000},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"5d72ce05-f6ff-4075-9514-8c84b838ebbc","uptime":{"ms":812044}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":17943760,"memory\_alloc":16786608,"memory\_total":2088946920,"rss":88408064},"runtime":{"goroutines":27}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":3,"starts":3},"reloads":1,"scans":70},"output":{"events":{"acked":1346,"batches":70,"total":1346},"type":"kafka"},"outputs":{"kafka":{"bytes\_read":8412,"bytes\_write":593765}},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0,"published":1346,"retry":35,"total":1346},"queue":{"acked":1346}}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":16},"load":{"1":0.16,"15":0.14,"5":0.11,"norm":{"1":0.01,"15":0.0088,"5":0.0069}}}}}}  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.862+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:154 Uptime: 13m32.046111342s  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.862+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:131 Stopping metrics logging.  
2020-10-06T08:03:06.862+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:456 metricbeat stopped.

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**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-stopping-or-getting-killed-7-9-1/251099/2 "2020-10-06T11:32:32Z")

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@Prashant_Achari, if you enable debug logging, do you see any information there on why it could be stopping? Also, have you noticed if there is a specific interval metricbeat stops, ex every hour or right after you start it up?

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**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-stopping-or-getting-killed-7-9-1/251099/3 "2020-10-06T14:36:44Z")

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Duration of going down is not same. but does not crash during the start up.

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-stopping-or-getting-killed-7-9-1/251099/4 "2020-10-07T06:53:01Z")

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Logs after enabling the debug

2020-10-07T07:33:22.209+0100 DEBUG [service] service/service.go:56 Received sighup, stopping  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 INFO cfgfile/reload.go:227 Dynamic config reloader stopped  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 INFO [reload] cfgfile/list.go:124 Stopping 3 runners ...  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:135 Stopping runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:135 Stopping runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:135 Stopping runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=filesystem, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=uptime, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=cpu, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:137 Stopped runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=fsstat, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:137 Stopped runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=load, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=memory, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=network, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.210+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=process, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=process\_summary, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:157 client: closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:162 client: done closing acker  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:164 client: unlink from queue  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:177 client: cancelled 0 events  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:166 client: done unlink  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:214 Stopped metricSetWrapper[module=system, name=socket\_summary, host=]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [module] module/wrapper.go:155 Stopped Wrapper[name=system, len(metricSetWrappers)=1]  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.211+0100 DEBUG [reload] cfgfile/list.go:137 Stopped runner: RunnerGroup{system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1], system [metricsets=1]}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.213+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":47190,"time":{"ms":47195}},"total":{"ticks":88170,"time":{"ms":88177},"value":88170},"user":{"ticks":40980,"time":{"ms":40982}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":65535,"soft":65535},"open":13},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"e7df2ece-af5d-47a4-b47b-87ef8d87d392","uptime":{"ms":3714887}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":24599792,"memory\_alloc":18565976,"memory\_total":8491573464,"rss":65003520},"runtime":{"goroutines":27}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":3,"starts":3},"reloads":1,"scans":1},"output":{"events":{"acked":6271,"batches":360,"total":6271},"type":"kafka"},"outputs":{"kafka":{"bytes\_read":41700,"bytes\_write":2286996}},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":25,"published":6296,"retry":35,"total":6296},"queue":{"acked":6271}}},"metricbeat":{"system":{"cpu":{"events":361,"success":361},"filesystem":{"events":976,"success":976},"fsstat":{"events":61,"success":61},"load":{"events":361,"success":361},"memory":{"events":361,"success":361},"network":{"events":722,"success":722},"process":{"events":2727,"success":2727},"process\_summary":{"events":361,"success":361},"socket\_summary":{"events":361,"success":361},"uptime":{"events":5,"success":5}}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":16},"load":{"1":0.36,"15":0.24,"5":0.27,"norm":{"1":0.0225,"15":0.015,"5":0.0169}}}}}}  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.213+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:154 Uptime: 1h1m54.88841668s  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.213+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:131 Stopping metrics logging.  
2020-10-07T07:33:22.213+0100 INFO instance/beat.go:456 metricbeat stopped.

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