# Multiple hosts monitoring
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225 "2016-08-04T14:16:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/1 "2016-08-04T14:16:45Z")
Hi i have 2 hosts with topbeat configured to send to another host (third)
the problem is i can't disting 2 hosts on kibana dashboard, furthermore it takes all "-" in name as a new machine so i have 2 hosts to monitor, but i have 5 lines on dashboard =
name
test-int-name-01
test-int-name-02
i see
test
int
name
01
02
it is a big issue how i can do ?
thanks !
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/2 "2016-08-04T15:16:18Z")
This is caused by not loading the provided index template. Please see the documentation on [how to load the index template](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/topbeat/current/topbeat-template.html). You will have to delete the data you already indexed in order to correct the issue (there's a note about that in the docs).
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### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/3 "2016-08-04T15:32:23Z")
thank you very much you're right i will try it with the windows command there is no CURL in windows
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### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2016, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/4 "2016-08-05T07:31:22Z")
I am sorry but i did the command via postman but it doesn't work, i use topbeat on only one computer, i delete the old data but i still see like it was several hosts monitored, see the pictures
as you can see i monitor only one host , its name is "rs-tst-aof-01", indeed i can't use monitoring due to duplicate data
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### Author:  [@MarkGavalda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarkGavalda)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/5 "2016-08-06T21:49:54Z")
The problem is Beats splits the hostnames into multiple ones at the dashes. I came to the forum to report the exact same thing :-/ I even set the:
_shipper:_
_name: "my-shipper"_
configuration option, but it results in the same.
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/6 "2016-08-07T14:57:06Z")
Please provide the output of the following Elasticsearch queries. You'll probably need to use something like [http://pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com) in order to share the results due to post size limits.
`http://:9200/_template/topbeat?pretty`
`http://:9200/topbeat-2016.08.07/_mapping?pretty` \<- substitute in today's date
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### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/8 "2016-08-09T12:38:36Z")
> [@andrewkroh](#):
>
> topbeat-2016.08.07/\_mapping?pretty
this is the mapping in attchment, thanks
{
"topbeat-2016.08.09": {
"mappings": {
"filesystem": {
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date",
"format": "strict\_date\_optional\_time||epoch\_millis"
},
"beat": {
"properties": {
"hostname": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"count": {
"type": "long"
},
"fs": {
"properties": {
"avail": {
"type": "long"
},
"device\_name": {
"type": "string"
},
"files": {
"type": "long"
},
"free": {
"type": "long"
},
"free\_files": {
"type": "long"
},
"mount\_point": {
"type": "string"
},
"total": {
"type": "long"
},
"used": {
"type": "long"
},
"used\_p": {
"type": "double"
}
}
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"system": {
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date",
"format": "strict\_date\_optional\_time||epoch\_millis"
},
"beat": {
"properties": {
"hostname": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"count": {
"type": "long"
},
"cpu": {
"properties": {
"idle": {
"type": "long"
},
"iowait": {
"type": "long"
},
"irq": {
"type": "long"
},
"nice": {
"type": "long"
},
"softirq": {
"type": "long"
},
"steal": {
"type": "long"
},
"system": {
"type": "long"
},
"system\_p": {
"type": "double"
},
"user": {
"type": "long"
},
"user\_p": {
"type": "double"
}
}
},
"load": {
"properties": {
"load1": {
"type": "long"
},
"load15": {
"type": "long"
},
"load5": {
"type": "long"
}
}
},
"mem": {
"properties": {
"actual\_free": {
"type": "long"
},
"actual\_used": {
"type": "long"
},
"actual\_used\_p": {
"type": "double"
},
"free": {
"type": "long"
},
"total": {
"type": "long"
},
"used": {
"type": "long"
},
"used\_p": {
"type": "double"
}
}
},
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### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/9 "2016-08-09T12:38:53Z")
```
"swap": {
"properties": {
"free": {
"type": "long"
},
"total": {
"type": "long"
},
"used": {
"type": "long"
},
"used_p": {
"type": "long"
}
}
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"process": {
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date",
"format": "strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis"
},
"beat": {
"properties": {
"hostname": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"count": {
"type": "long"
},
"proc": {
"properties": {
"cmdline": {
"type": "string"
},
"cpu": {
"properties": {
"start_time": {
"type": "string"
},
"system": {
"type": "long"
},
"total": {
"type": "long"
},
"user": {
"type": "long"
},
"user_p": {
"type": "double"
}
}
},
"mem": {
"properties": {
"rss": {
"type": "long"
},
"rss_p": {
"type": "long"
},
"share": {
"type": "long"
},
"size": {
"type": "long"
}
}
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"pid": {
"type": "long"
},
"ppid": {
"type": "long"
},
"state": {
"type": "string"
},
"username": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
```
}
}
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/10 "2016-08-10T14:28:35Z")
@fdlprod, the mapping that you posted indicates that you do not have the provided index template installed.
1. Stop the Topbeat service.
`PS C:\Program Files\Topbeat> Stop-Service topbeat`
1. Install the template:
`PS C:\Program Files\Topbeat> Invoke-WebRequest -Method Put -InFile topbeat.template.json -Uri http://localhost:9200/_template/topbeat?pretty`
1. Delete the existing Topbeat data that has the wrong mappings.
`PS C:\Program Files\Topbeat> Invoke-WebRequest -Method Delete -Uri "http://localhost:9200/topbeat-*"`
1. Restart the Topbeat service:
`PS C:\Program Files\Topbeat> Start-Service topbeat`
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### Author:  [@fdlprod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdlprod)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/11 "2016-08-11T10:28:11Z")
i am sorry bu t always same result i try also in filebeat.yml to set template and override : true same error strange because in discover it seems to be OK
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-hosts-monitoring/57225/12 "2016-08-25T14:17:09Z")
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