# Module system doesn't exist!...but it does

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-module, metricbeat\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702 "2019-04-26T17:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![teamg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@teamg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teamg)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702/1 "2019-04-26T17:37:40Z")

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Been troubleshooting metricbeat and found something interesting in version 7 of ELK and Metricbeat:

> [root@elk modules.d]# metricbeat modules list  
> Enabled:
> 
> Disabled:  
> [root@elk modules.d]# metricbeat modules enable system  
> Module system doesn't exist!  
> [root@elk modules.d]# ll  
> total 156  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 209 Apr 5 17:13 aerospike.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 241 Apr 5 17:13 apache.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 236 Apr 5 17:13 aws.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 424 Apr 5 17:13 ceph.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 275 Apr 5 17:13 couchbase.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Apr 5 17:13 couchdb.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 638 Apr 5 17:13 docker.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 308 Apr 5 17:13 dropwizard.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 283 Apr 5 17:13 elasticsearch.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 209 Apr 5 17:13 envoyproxy.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 258 Apr 5 17:13 etcd.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 295 Apr 5 17:13 golang.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 458 Apr 5 17:13 graphite.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 217 Apr 5 17:13 haproxy.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 653 Apr 5 17:13 http.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 981 Apr 5 17:13 jolokia.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 745 Apr 5 17:13 kafka.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 255 Apr 5 17:13 kibana.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1115 Apr 5 17:13 kubernetes.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 214 Apr 5 17:13 kvm.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 261 Apr 5 17:13 logstash.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 203 Apr 5 17:13 memcached.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1170 Apr 5 17:13 mongodb.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 127 Apr 5 17:13 mssql.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 192 Apr 5 17:13 munin.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 580 Apr 5 17:13 mysql.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 371 Apr 5 17:13 nats.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 349 Apr 5 17:13 nginx.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 280 Apr 5 17:13 php\_fpm.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 290 Apr 5 17:13 postgresql.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 486 Apr 5 17:13 prometheus.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 271 Apr 5 17:13 rabbitmq.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 441 Apr 5 17:13 redis.yml.disabled  
> **\> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 773 Apr 5 17:13 system.yml**  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Apr 5 17:13 traefik.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 200 Apr 5 17:13 uwsgi.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 478 Apr 5 17:13 vsphere.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 736 Apr 5 17:13 windows.yml.disabled  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 218 Apr 5 17:13 zookeeper.yml.disabled

Is this a bug? I am collecting system stats for a Kibana Dashboard.

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702/2 "2019-04-26T21:54:23Z")

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> [@teamg](#):
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> metricbeat modules list

Hello! Which directory and what OS are you running this on?

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**Author:** ![teamg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@teamg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teamg)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702/3 "2019-05-01T13:54:46Z")

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This is a RHEL 7.6 server. I ran this from the /etc/metricbeat/modules.d/ directory.

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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:** [May 29, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-system-doesnt-exist-but-it-does/178702/4 "2019-05-29T13:54:53Z")

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