Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Running Metricbeat with the system module

Let's make use of Metricbeat and capture the system metrics.

Make sure Kibana 6.0 and Elasticsearch 6.0 are running:

1. Replace the content of metricbeat.yml with the following configuration and save the file:

############### Metricbeat Configuration Example #################============== Modules configuration =========================metricbeat.config.modules:  # Glob pattern for configuration loading  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml  # Set to true to enable config reloading  reload.enabled: false  # Period on which files under path should be checked for changes  #reload.period: 10s#=========== Elasticsearch template setting =================setup.template.settings:  index.number_of_shards: 1 index.codec: ...