# Metricbeats reported version mismatch **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [December 12, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071 "2022-12-12T20:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![serge1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@serge1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/serge1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/1 "2022-12-12T20:13:13Z")
Hello! I'm installing beats v. `8.5.1` on my machines. When I query installed version with `/var/lib/metricbeat/metricbeat version`, it reports itself as `8.5.1`. However in Humio where I ship the metrics, Agent version is popping up as `8.4.3` – a version we never installed anywhere in our environment. ```auto "agent": { "name":"some-host", "id":"some_id", "ephemeral_id":"another_id", "type":"metricbeat", "version":"8.4.3" ``` Any ideas why? Is this expected? ---
**Author:** ![TiagoQueiroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagoqueiroz/32/107061_2.png) [@TiagoQueiroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TiagoQueiroz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/2 "2022-12-13T09:03:01Z")
Hi @serge1, Is there any change you're running two instances of Metricbeat? Some things you can try: 1. run `ps aux | grep metricbeat` to make sure there is only one instance running. 2. Look the IDs in the logs and compare with the ones you see in the event. When Metricbeat starts it logs its IDs (I suppressed a few lines on this example): ```auto {"log.level":"info","@timestamp":"2022-12-13T09:57:25.876+0100","log.origin":{"file.name":"instance/beat.go","file.line":716},"message":"Beat ID: f466ed8f-15ea-4948-ae6c-0521c3bf95f9","service.name":"metricbeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"} {"log.level":"info","@timestamp":"2022-12-13T09:57:25.894+0100","log.logger":"beat","log.origin":{"file.name":"instance/beat.go","file.line":1082},"message":"Beat info","service.name":"metricbeat","system_info":{"beat":{"path":{"config":"/home/tiago/devel/beats/metricbeat","data":"/home/tiago/devel/beats/metricbeat/data","home":"/home/tiago/devel/beats/metricbeat","logs":"/home/tiago/devel/beats/metricbeat/logs"},"type":"metricbeat","uuid":"f466ed8f-15ea-4948-ae6c-0521c3bf95f9"},"ecs.version":"1.6.0"}} ``` 1. Stop all Metricbeat process and start them again. If for some reason you did an upgrade and the old process is still running, that should solve it. ---
**Author:** ![serge1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@serge1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/serge1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/3 "2022-12-13T17:38:47Z")
Thanks for your reply! There's just one instance running. I did get around this by setting `allow_older_versions: true` and `setup.ilm.enabled: false`, but have no metrics flowing to elastic. Any ideas at all? Filebeats 8.5.1 seem to be working fine -- I can see logs being shipped. Just metricbeats stopped. ---
**Author:** ![serge1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@serge1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/serge1)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/4 "2022-12-13T17:42:44Z")
some additional data -- locally I can see metrics work with `metricbeat -e`, no real errors, and all server settings are configured the same between metricbeats and filebeats, and filebeats work OK, so probably not something like token / URL / etc ---
**Author:** ![TiagoQueiroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagoqueiroz/32/107061_2.png) [@TiagoQueiroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TiagoQueiroz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/5 "2022-12-14T11:15:14Z")
Try running Metricbeat with `-e -v -d "*"`, like: `./metricbeat -e -v -d "*"` (if you're running it maually), this will log all events sent to the output, compare the `agent.*` data there with Metricbeat's version and the data you're seeing at the final destination. ---
**Author:** ![TiagoQueiroz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagoqueiroz/32/107061_2.png) [@TiagoQueiroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TiagoQueiroz)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/6 "2022-12-14T11:15:40Z")
That will enable debug logging, it's quite verbose, specially if you have a high throughput. ---
**Author:** ![serge1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@serge1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/serge1)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/7 "2022-12-14T17:17:00Z")
thanks for suggestions. I ended up giving up and going back to 7.x which works fine. I'll do some testing on a single machine with verbose output and see if it gives me anything useful. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeats-reported-version-mismatch/321071/8 "2023-01-11T19:17:59Z")
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