# Visualizing Disk IO through Kibana 5 and Metric Beat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizing-disk-io-through-kibana-5-and-metric-beat/66513>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizing-disk-io-through-kibana-5-and-metric-beat/66513 "2016-11-18T09:23:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhimanyunagrath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b4bc9f/32.png) [@abhimanyunagrath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhimanyunagrath)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizing-disk-io-through-kibana-5-and-metric-beat/66513/1 "2016-11-18T09:23:31Z")

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Hi,

I am new to metric beat and I want to visualize Disk IO operations of each disk .I am getting various parameters like(system.diskio.read.bytes , system.diskio.write.bytes , system.diskio.read.counts , system.diskio.write.count) but I don't know which one to use and how to create its visualization in kb ana. From the documentation, it is not clear that How to use these fields to monitor IOPS.

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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:** [November 18, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizing-disk-io-through-kibana-5-and-metric-beat/66513/2 "2016-11-18T13:57:30Z")

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What you are looking for is probably Timelion (part of Kibana) and derivates: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/timelion.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/timelion.html) You can do calculations as part of the visualisations. Best is probably to write down first what values you would need to calculate IOPS and check if they are available.

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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:** [December 16, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizing-disk-io-through-kibana-5-and-metric-beat/66513/3 "2016-12-16T13:57:57Z")

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