Installation of Metricbeat

This page consist of 3 section, installation, configure and start Metricbeat

Metricbeat is now supported on most common flavors Linux, Unix, Windows and Apple OSX.

• Windows

  • Download Metricbeat Windows zip fileWindows zipped file

  • Extract the contents of the zip file into C:\Program Files.

  • Rename the metricbeat--windows directory to Metricbeat.

  • Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).

  • From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install Metricbeat as a Windows service:

    PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Metricbeat'
    PS C:\Program Files\Metricbeat> .\install-service-metricbeat.ps1
    

• Linux

  • Download and install

    curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.14.0-x86_64.rpm
yum localinstall metricbeat-7.14.0-x86_64.rpm

• Apple OSX

  • Download and unzip
    curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.14.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf metricbeat-7.14.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

• Others

  • Download and unzip Other OS

• Change the configuration file:

  • change to the Metricbeat directory, look for the file named metricbeat.yml
    • Windows directory: C:\Program Files\Metricbeat\metricbeat.yml
    • Linux and MacOS directory: /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml
  • edit and change the output as below

    #output.elasticsearch:
      #hosts: ["myEShost:9200"]
    output.logstash:
      hosts: [emedge_ip:5044]
      ssl.enable: true
      ssl.verification_mode: "none"
    

    emedge_ip is the IP address of emedge

• Enable the modules:

  • Enable the modules for Metricbeat to collect data from:
    • Windows: PS > .\metricbeat.exe modules enable <module-name>
    • Linux: metricbeat modules enable system <module-name>
    • e.g.
      • Linux: metricbeat modules enable system elasticsearch radius
  • Configure each of the modules
    • Detail guide for configuration of each modules can be found here.

• Windows: PS C:\Program Files\metricbeat> Start-Service metricbeat
  • You may start the service from Services as well
• Linux: service metricbeat start