Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Enabling module config in the metricbeat.yml file

If one is used to earlier versions of Metricbeat, one can enable the modules and metricsets in the metricbeat.yml file directly by adding entries to the metricbeat.modules list. Each entry in the list begins with a dash (-) and is followed by the settings for that module. For example:

metricbeat.modules:#------------------ Memcached Module ------------------------------ module: memcached  metricsets: ["stats"]  period: 10s  hosts: ["localhost:11211"]#------------------- MongoDB Module ------------------------------- module: mongodb  metricsets: ["dbstats", "status"]  period: 5s

It is possible to specify the module multiple times and specify a different period to use for one or more metricset. For ...