Monitoring Cluster - monitoring using metricbeat or xpack self default monitoring?

What are the pro and cons of monitoring using metricbeat vs default elasticseaech http export? I have a separate monitoring cluster?

Why switch to metricbeat if default self xpack monitoring can also do the same job?

As I understand, longer term we are going to be moving everything to Metricbeat. So doing it now just means you're prepared.

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Yeah, I have read that from Elastic documentation but I just wanted to know the reasoning. Why they choose another agent when xpack itself could have handled those things?

See https://www.elastic.co/blog/external-collection-for-elastic-stack-monitoring-is-now-available-via-metricbeat

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