# Metricbeat : Why is the count of the beat varying so much

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [October 29, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435 "2018-10-29T11:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruthvik\_Sai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a587f6/32.png) [@Ruthvik\_Sai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ruthvik_Sai)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435/1 "2018-10-29T11:46:24Z")

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![Screenshot%20(61)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/1/c1bf564870f039eebebb50021a91c541b9db3abb.png) !

The above is the pic of metricbeat running from 5 desktop end points

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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:** [October 29, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435/2 "2018-10-29T16:24:15Z")

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Hi @Ruthvik_Sai and welcome 🙂

What are you trying to count? What is what you expect?

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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:** [October 29, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435/3 "2018-10-29T16:29:36Z")

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Oh, I guess you are trying to count the number of metrics received by host.  
This can vary depending on the modules you have enabled. Could you try to split series per `metricbeat.module` instead of per hostname? This way you could see the events collected by each module.

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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:** [November 26, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-why-is-the-count-of-the-beat-varying-so-much/154435/4 "2018-11-26T18:29:40Z")

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