# Scale monitoring using metricbeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891 "2022-01-10T13:05:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@motkele](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/motkele)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891/1 "2022-01-10T13:05:56Z")
Hello,
I have a very specific question regarding the way to collect metrics using metricbeat.
I would like to collect the metrics from all the services running on the server (and for which a metricbeat module is available).
I would like to better understand if Elastic provides some mechanism to perform an automatic discovery and config in that case:
- discover which services are running on the server on which the metricbeat agent is running
- configure elastic to start collecting metrics fron these services
Thanks,
Moti.
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### Author:  [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891/2 "2022-01-10T13:25:17Z")
Hi @motkele !
This is not supported in the generic case but can be achieved in specific environments like docker, kubernetes etc. You can check [Autodiscover | Metricbeat Reference [7.16] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-autodiscover.html) to have an idea of what is supported there.
C.
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### Author:  [@motkele](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/motkele)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891/3 "2022-01-10T13:30:28Z")
Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot of the prompt response.
What about VM based environments ?
I assume that each and every metricbeat user deploying on several dozens of servers is encountering the same challenge since he/she would not like to start and discover the services running on each server and then configure each one of them in a manual manner.
Moti.
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### Author:  [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891/4 "2022-01-10T13:46:04Z")
Yes I see the point here, hence the problem is too generic and there would be needed a mechanism to probe for known services' endpoints as well as a level of integration with each one of the orchestrators/hypervisors so as to automatically identify newcomer hosts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-monitoring-using-metricbeat/293891/5 "2022-02-07T15:46:14Z")
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