Metricbeat Deep Dive: Hands-On Metricbeat Configuration Practice

The article provides an in-depth exploration of Metricbeat, a lightweight shipper for collecting and exporting metrics from servers, detailing its installation, configuration, and various use cases. Metricbeat, part of the Elastic Beats family, allows users to gather metrics from operating systems and services like CPU, memory, Redis, and NGINX, and export them to outputs such as Elasticsearch or Logstash. The configuration process involves editing the YAML-based metricbeat.yml file, where users can specify modules for data collection, processors for data processing, and outputs for data export. The article also presents examples of Metricbeat configuration, illustrating the practical application of modules and processors to manage system metrics and demonstrating how to integrate with Coralogix's Logstash server for enhanced data handling.