@adrisr -
I do not have the same machine now, I have a 32 bit Win-7 server, I still the same issue.
recovered from panic while fetching 'windows/perfmon' for host ''. Recovering, but please report this: runtime error: slice bounds out of range. {"stack": "github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/logp.Recover\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/logp/global.go:88\nruntime.call16\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:559\nruntime.gopanic\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:491\nruntime.panicslice\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:35\ngithub.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/module/windows/perfmon.PdhGetFormattedCounterArray\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/module/windows/perfmon/pdh_windows.go:133
Could you please share the 32 bit metricbeat.exe to share the findings with you. Thanks !