Use internal collection to send monitoring data
editUse internal collection to send monitoring data
editUse internal collectors to send Beats monitoring data directly to your monitoring cluster. Or as an alternative to internal collection, use Use Metricbeat collection. The benefit of using internal collection instead of Metricbeat is that you have fewer pieces of software to install and maintain.
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Create an API key or user that has appropriate authority to send system-level monitoring
data to Elasticsearch. For example, you can use the built-in
beats_system
user or assign the built-inbeats_system
role to another user. For more information on the required privileges, see Create a monitoring user. For more information on how to use API keys, see Grant access using API keys. -
Add the
monitoring
settings in the Metricbeat configuration file. If you configured the Elasticsearch output and want to send Metricbeat monitoring events to the same Elasticsearch cluster, specify the following minimal configuration:monitoring: enabled: true elasticsearch: api_key: id:api_key username: beats_system password: somepassword
If you want to send monitoring events to an Elastic Cloud monitoring cluster, you can use two simpler settings. When defined, these settings overwrite settings from other parts in the configuration. For example:
monitoring: enabled: true cloud.id: 'staging:dXMtZWFzdC0xLmF3cy5mb3VuZC5pbyRjZWM2ZjI2MWE3NGJmMjRjZTMzYmI4ODExYjg0Mjk0ZiRjNmMyY2E2ZDA0MjI0OWFmMGNjN2Q3YTllOTYyNTc0Mw==' cloud.auth: 'elastic:{pwd}'
If you configured a different output, such as Logstash or you want to send Metricbeat monitoring events to a separate Elasticsearch cluster (referred to as the monitoring cluster), you must specify additional configuration options. For example:
monitoring: enabled: true cluster_uuid: PRODUCTION_ES_CLUSTER_UUID elasticsearch: hosts: ["https://example.com:9200", "https://example2.com:9200"] api_key: id:api_key username: beats_system password: somepassword
This setting identifies the Elasticsearch cluster under which the monitoring data for this Metricbeat instance will appear in the Stack Monitoring UI. To get a cluster’s
cluster_uuid
, call theGET /
API against that production cluster.This setting identifies the hosts and port numbers of Elasticsearch nodes that are part of the monitoring cluster.
Specify one of
api_key
orusername
/password
.If you want to use PKI authentication to send monitoring events to Elasticsearch, you must specify a different set of configuration options. For example:
monitoring: enabled: true cluster_uuid: PRODUCTION_ES_CLUSTER_UUID elasticsearch: hosts: ["https://example.com:9200", "https://example2.com:9200"] username: "" ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"] ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem" ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
You must specify the
username
as""
explicitly so that the username from the client certificate (CN
) is used. See SSL for more information about SSL settings. - Start Metricbeat.
- View the monitoring data in Kibana.