# Topbeat does not report per-core statistics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130 "2017-04-20T23:27:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexander.bensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@alexander.bensch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexander.bensch)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130/1 "2017-04-20T23:27:39Z")

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Howdy!

I'm trying to analyze an OpenStack cloud's performance for different services using topbeat and packetbeat. I chose topbeat specifically because it supported per-core reporting for processes' CPU usage. However, after setting cpu\_per\_core to true in the YAML and restarting the client, I saw no individual core values reported back to Logstash. Topbeat continues to report, but there appears to be no individual core data as indicated by both the cpuX.\* filters being hidden in Kibana and by the results of manually searching for those fields. I've read in a few places that the Windows implementation exhibits similar behavior to what I'm seeing, but this is a Linux system. Could anyone give me some guidance on how to diagnose this?

Info:  
System was deployed using the [DigitalOcean guide](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-gather-infrastructure-metrics-with-topbeat-and-elk-on-ubuntu-14-04). This includes using all of their specified repositories.  
Topbeat version 1.3.1

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130/2 "2017-04-24T08:23:33Z")

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I strongly recommend you to use Metricbeat instead of Topbeat. I assume you are looking for the core metricset? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/5.3/metricbeat-metricset-system-core.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/5.3/metricbeat-metricset-system-core.html)

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**Author:** ![alexander.bensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@alexander.bensch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexander.bensch)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130/3 "2017-05-02T17:35:04Z")

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I didn't even know about metricbeat. It looks like exactly what I want. Thanks!

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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:** [May 30, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-does-not-report-per-core-statistics/83130/4 "2017-05-30T17:39:11Z")

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