# Topbeat report mismatched hostname when it been changed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-report-mismatched-hostname-when-it-been-changed/84312>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-report-mismatched-hostname-when-it-been-changed/84312 "2017-05-02T18:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![DravenJohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@DravenJohnson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DravenJohnson)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-report-mismatched-hostname-when-it-been-changed/84312/1 "2017-05-02T18:21:49Z")

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Have to restart topbeat in order to get correct hostname?

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-report-mismatched-hostname-when-it-been-changed/84312/2 "2017-05-03T11:27:32Z")

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I strongly recommend to use Metricbeat instead of Topbeat. Topbeat was replaced with Metricbeat starting with 5.0 release. By default Metricbeat has the same behavior as Topbeat, meaning that it gets the system statistics and indexes them to Elasticsearch. Please let us know if you encounter the same issue with Metricbeat.

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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 31, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/topbeat-report-mismatched-hostname-when-it-been-changed/84312/3 "2017-05-31T11:32:15Z")

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