# What privileges does the metricbeat api key need?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-privileges-does-the-metricbeat-api-key-need/320727>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-privileges-does-the-metricbeat-api-key-need/320727 "2022-12-08T02:28:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Russell\_Fulton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/russell_fulton/32/62888_2.png) [@Russell\_Fulton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Russell_Fulton)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-privileges-does-the-metricbeat-api-key-need/320727/1 "2022-12-08T02:28:55Z")

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Setting up monitoring and following the instruction [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.17/metricbeat-installation-configuration.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/7.17/metricbeat-installation-configuration.html)

I world rather not use Elastic...

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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:** [January 5, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-privileges-does-the-metricbeat-api-key-need/320727/2 "2023-01-05T02:29:22Z")

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