# Metricbeat system module

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-module/99170>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 1, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-module/99170 "2017-09-01T21:41:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashvita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@ashvita](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashvita)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-module/99170/1 "2017-09-01T21:41:06Z")

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Hi,

I looked into the metricbeat source code but didn't really understand much. Can someone please tell me which system calls does metricbeat makes to get cpu memory network etc data as part of system module?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-module/99170/2 "2017-09-04T13:23:46Z")

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metricbeat uses [gosigar](https://github.com/elastic/gosigar) to query some of the information.

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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:** [October 2, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-module/99170/3 "2017-10-02T13:23:46Z")

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