# Service account for metricbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-account-for-metricbeat/339904>\
**Category:** Metrics\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [August 2, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-account-for-metricbeat/339904 "2023-08-02T08:19:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![\_Zeyad\_Elshater](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_zeyad_elshater/32/119684_2.png) [@\_Zeyad\_Elshater](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_Zeyad_Elshater)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-account-for-metricbeat/339904/1 "2023-08-02T08:19:08Z")

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Hi all,  
is it a best practice to create a separate account for the beats , specially " metricbeat " to run as log in for its windows service , if yes , what permission does it needs

thanks in adnvace

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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:** [August 30, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-account-for-metricbeat/339904/2 "2023-08-30T08:19:53Z")

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