Need to setup cpu,memory,disk dashboards in kibana

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#1

I am fairly new to ELK and going thru dis portal is kind of helping me a little bit. I saw you are active and knowledgable in ELK.

Could you help me in setting my visualization so I could set up the dashboards for my new project.

metric beats has been setup already,my agenda is to setup metrics(cpu,disk,memory,io..) for our gcp projects/hosts. I tried few visualization steps but nothing seems to be working as I need it to be.

Appreciate your help.

#2

Are you running Metricbeat on each of your GCP hosts? If so, the system module which is enabled by default should get you the metrics you are looking for.

Shaunak

#3

Shaunak,

Yes metricbeat is installed. How do I get the default system module dashboard? Doesn’t it require an index setup first. I’m finding it hard to create an index just fir our data. I can now see huge list of indexes for other projects.

#4

Shaunak,

I looked into the queries but nothing is helping my case. please let me know what metrics, aggregate, field I should select to create visualization for all CPU, memory metrics. Much appreciate the help.

#6

If you've setup the module that is mentioned above and then run Metricbeat, then it will populate the indices and the dashboards automatically.

#7

I am using system.memory.total, system.memory.free ..... everything is showing up in bytes in visualization , how do I get actual utilization in GB.My dashboard should look exactly like - System module | Metricbeat Reference [7.11] | Elastic. Could you help me with metric aggregation and filed. Much appreciated.

#8

Try searching for [Metricbeat System] in the dashboard menu of Kibana. The dashboard should with multiple visualizations should be automatically populated if you have setup.dashboards.enabled: true in your metricbeat.yml