Unable to import metricbeat dashboard

Elastic Stack Beats
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Hello All,

I am using metricbeat6.2.4. I want to export metricbeat dashboard in kibana. I have configured logstash output in my metricbeat.yml file instead of elasticsearch output. My Kibana dashboard is running on different server and i am using nginx webserver.

When is used the below command to import the dashboard i am getting below error:

$ /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat setup -e -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml

Error:

2018-08-20T07:32:00.477Z	INFO	instance/beat.go:468	Home path: [/usr/share/metricbeat/bin] Config path: [/usr/share/metricbeat/bin] Data path: [/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/data] Logs path: [/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/logs]
2018-08-20T07:32:00.478Z	INFO	instance/beat.go:475	Beat UUID: a62b67aa-61ec-44a1-abf0-5632a63ac46f
2018-08-20T07:32:00.478Z	INFO	instance/beat.go:213	Setup Beat: metricbeat; Version: 6.2.4
2018-08-20T07:32:00.480Z	INFO	pipeline/module.go:76	Beat name: orion4
2018-08-20T07:32:00.481Z	ERROR	instance/beat.go:667	Exiting: Template loading requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled
Exiting: Template loading requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled

Can you please help me how i can import metricbeat dashboard.

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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What version of Elasticsearch / Kibana are you using?

It seems the above error comes from the issue that when you run setup it also tries to load the template which it can't. Try adding --dashboard to only load the dashboard.

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Hello Ruflin,

Thanks for your response.

After making some changes in my configuration i am able to import the dashboards.

But now i am facing another issue. For some fields i am not getting data on metricbeat dashboard.

Please refer the below screenshot:

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I am talking about "The request for this panel failed"

I am getting the below log in my elasticsearch:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [system.network.name] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead.

Note:- I am using ELK6.2.4 as well as Beat 6.2.4 version.

Please suggest.

Thanks.

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Did you load the metricbeat index template before you started ingesting data?