# Receiving unwanted information from system module

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-unwanted-information-from-system-module/231168>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-unwanted-information-from-system-module/231168 "2020-05-05T14:03:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bibas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bibas/32/67732_2.png) [@Bibas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bibas)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-unwanted-information-from-system-module/231168/1 "2020-05-05T14:03:38Z")

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Hello

I'm currently using Metricbeat to retrieve system information on my server, here's a sample of my `metricbeat.yml` :

```auto
#-------------------------------- System Module --------------------------------
- module: system
  metricsets:
    - cpu # CPU usage
    - memory # Memory usage
    - network # Network IO
    - uptime # System Uptime
    - filesystem # File system usage for each mountpoint
  enabled: true
  period: 600s
  processes: ['.*']

  # Configure the metric types that are included by these metricsets.
  cpu.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available options are normalized_percentages and ticks.
  core.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available option is ticks.

```

My issue is that even if some metricsets are not in here, I receive information about them.  
For example I receive logs from system.load, system.process and system.socket

How could I disable those logs ?

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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:** [June 2, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receiving-unwanted-information-from-system-module/231168/2 "2020-06-02T16:03:41Z")

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