# What is the pre-requisite for beats to run on windows machine

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**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829 "2018-10-31T11:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![somu\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@somu\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/somu_p)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829/1 "2018-10-31T11:56:49Z")

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i have two question regarding metric beats:

1. i cant find the pre-requite document for metrixbeats on your website. please share the same for metric beats, Logstack and Elastic search.
2. beats give new record for every second, cant we reduce the number of records that it generated like group the monitoring values for every 5 mins.

Thank you in advance.

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829/2 "2018-10-31T13:56:33Z")

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Hi @somu_p,

Metricbeat doesn't have additional software requirements for Windows, you can find here the matrix of operating systems officially supported for each Elastic product: [https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix\_os](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_os)

To install metricbeat on Windows follow the instructions here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.4/metricbeat-installation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.4/metricbeat-installation.html)

Regarding the second question, collection interval is configured per module in metricbeat, you can modify it using the `period` setting, for example `period: 5m` to collect metrics every 5 minutes.  
Take into account that it can make sense to have different intervals for different sets of metrics.

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**Author:** ![somu\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@somu\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/somu_p)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829/3 "2018-11-13T13:17:54Z")

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> [@jsoriano](#):
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> Take into account that it can make sense to have different intervals for different sets of metrics.

regarding the answer to the second question. so the data produced at 5th minute is live data at that point of time or the aggregation of last 5 mins.

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829/4 "2018-11-13T16:28:23Z")

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It depends on the data collected, most modules don't do any aggregation, and they just collect the metric at that point in time.

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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 11, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-pre-requisite-for-beats-to-run-on-windows-machine/154829/5 "2018-12-11T18:28:23Z")

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