# Metricbeat System process permissions needed on windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 21, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977 "2019-05-21T10:23:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inbloo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inbloo/32/46548_2.png) [@Inbloo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Inbloo)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977/1 "2019-05-21T10:23:49Z")

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Hi  
We are using metricbeat system process module to monitor all processes running on windows platforms. Metricbeat is only able to get himself process information. We want to get all processes information.  
What permissions do it need to get all the processes in windows operative system?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977/2 "2019-05-21T10:27:06Z")

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Hi @Inbloo and welcome 🙂

Take a look at this thread: [Permission to setting up Metricbeat on Windows](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-to-setting-up-metricbeat-on-windows/72011)  
I think this is about the same issue.

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**Author:** ![Inbloo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inbloo/32/46548_2.png) [@Inbloo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Inbloo)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977/3 "2019-05-27T14:45:12Z")

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There's a bug in metricbeat that fail when executing metricbeat with non-admin user. Oppened on [https://github.com/elastic/gosigar/pull/121](https://github.com/elastic/gosigar/pull/121)

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**Author:** ![Inbloo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inbloo/32/46548_2.png) [@Inbloo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Inbloo)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977/4 "2019-05-27T14:46:29Z")

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Thanks for the info. We checked this link but it didn't solve the problem. There's a bug on metricbeat with non-admin user.

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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:** [June 24, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-system-process-permissions-needed-on-windows/181977/5 "2019-06-24T14:46:55Z")

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