# Trouble integrating new beat, based on metricbeat, with Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-integrating-new-beat-based-on-metricbeat-with-kibana/200264>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-development\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-integrating-new-beat-based-on-metricbeat-with-kibana/200264 "2019-09-19T16:24:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenrowland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d9b06d/32.png) [@kenrowland](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kenrowland)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-integrating-new-beat-based-on-metricbeat-with-kibana/200264/1 "2019-09-19T16:24:01Z")

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I am having trouble finding documentation on the process of getting the metrics reported by my new beat into Kibana. The beat was created based on metric beat as described [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/master/creating-beat-from-metricbeat.html).

The process created a starting module and metricset. I chose to create a beat based on metricbeat because the solution I need must collect metrics from a variety of system components, each having a different set of metrics depending on the audience (developer, ops, cluster monitoring, etc.)

I have it all working and reporting metrics to Elasticsearch. The next step is integrating and pulling in these metrics into Kibana. The documentation says that a **make update** will build a kibana index for the fields defined in fields.yml. I cannot get that process to work. I keep getting the following error:

```auto
/home/rowlke01/go/src/github.com/xxxxxxx/mybeat/build/python-env/bin/python ./vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/script/modules_collector.py --beat mybeat --docs_branch=
cp: cannot stat 'module/*/_meta/kibana/*': No such file or directory
vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/Makefile:19: recipe for target 'kibana' failed
make: [kibana] Error 1 (ignored)

```

Perhaps the process for generating this information is different because it's based on metricbeat? is there additional information needed in the fields.yml file to control this process?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![kenrowland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d9b06d/32.png) [@kenrowland](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kenrowland)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-integrating-new-beat-based-on-metricbeat-with-kibana/200264/2 "2019-09-24T13:49:19Z")

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Bump to keep it current.

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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:** [October 22, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-integrating-new-beat-based-on-metricbeat-with-kibana/200264/3 "2019-10-22T13:49:21Z")

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