Metricbeat

metricbeat is an Elastic software that allows to collect metrics from your systems and services. OS metrics such as CPU and memory or application metrics from Redis, NGINX and Logstash among others.

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat

• Configuration file: metricbeat.yml
• Logs: Metricbeat logs

Activities

1. Install MetricBeat in your system using docker
2. Install MetricBeat on macOS: brew install metricbeat
3. Read MetricBeat source code https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/metricbeat and review repository https://github.com/elastic/beats
4. Read Beats Release Notes

Related terms

• sysstat: sar
• Prometheus Node exporter
• Zabbix agent
• Elasticsearch
• Icingabeat (2017)

See also

• Metricbeat, installation, metricbeat.yml, Metricbeat logs, Metricbeat changelog
• Elastic: ELK, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Installation, AWS Elasticsearch, Elastic SIEM, Elastic Beats, metricbeat, filebeat, journalbeat, Elastisearch Service , Search guard, Elasticsearch logs, curator, ILM, Lumberjack protocol, aws_elasticsearch_domain, KQL, elasticsearch.yml, elasticsearch-plugin, elasticsearch-certutil, Elasticsearch release notes/changelog
• Monitoring: On call, Monitoring software, Monitoring services, Resource monitoring, Metric colletion tools, network monitoring, SLA Management Monitoring Tools, Alarm/Alert, Resource starvation, Alerts and notifications, Monitoring Kubernetes, VictoriaMetrics, Sensu, LogicMonitor, Distributed tracing