# Need to setup cpu,memory,disk dashboards in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295 "2021-02-04T19:13:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@charanteja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/charanteja)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/1 "2021-02-04T19:13:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/2 "2021-02-05T00:57:39Z")
Are you running Metricbeat on each of your GCP hosts? If so, the [`system` module](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html) which is enabled by default should get you the metrics you are looking for.
Shaunak
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### Author:  [@charanteja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/charanteja)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/3 "2021-02-05T13:45:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@charanteja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/charanteja)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/4 "2021-02-09T20:35:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/6 "2021-02-10T00:01:33Z")
If you've setup the module that is mentioned above and then run Metricbeat, then it will populate the indices and the dashboards automatically.
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### Author:  [@charanteja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/charanteja)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/7 "2021-02-12T05:24:24Z")
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](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html). Could you help me with metric aggregation and filed. Much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Abhilash\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhilash_B)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/8 "2021-02-12T06:17:29Z")
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
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-to-setup-cpu-memory-disk-dashboards-in-kibana/263295/9 "2021-03-12T06:18:12Z")
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