Metricbeat

Metricbeat should be installed as close as possible to the service that needs to be monitored. For example, if there are four servers running MySQL, it's strongly recommended that you run Metricbeat on each service. This gives Metricbeat access to your service from localhost and in turn does not cause any additional network traffic or prevent Metricbeat from collecting metrics when there are network problems. Metrics from multiple Metricbeat instances will be combined on the Elasticsearch server.

To download and install Metricbeat, use the commands that work with your system (deb for Debian/Ubuntu, rpm for Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora, macOS for OS X, Docker for any Docker platform, and win for Windows), as follows:

• Ubuntu:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.2.1-amd64.deb
 sudo dpkg -i metricbeat-6.2.1-amd64.deb

• Red Hat:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.2.1-x86_64.rpm
 sudo rpm -vi metricbeat-6.2.1-x86_64.rpm

• macOS:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.2.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
 tar xzvf metricbeat-6.2.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

• Windows:
  1. Download the Metricbeat Windows ZIP file from the downloads page.
  2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file into C:\Program Files.
  3. Rename the metricbeat-<version>-windows directory to Metricbeat.
  4. Open a PowerShell prompt as an administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run as administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
  5. 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

Before starting Metricbeat, you should look at the configuration options in the configuration file; for example, C:\Program Files\Metricbeat\metricbeat.yml.