- Metricbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Metricbeat
- Setting up and running Metricbeat
- Upgrading Metricbeat
- How Metricbeat works
- Configuring Metricbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- metricbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Aerospike module
- Apache module
- Ceph module
- Couchbase module
- Docker module
- Dropwizard module
- Elasticsearch module
- Elasticsearch cluster_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch index metricset
- Elasticsearch index_recovery metricset
- Elasticsearch index_summary metricset
- Elasticsearch ml_job metricset
- elasticsearch ml_job MetricSet
- Elasticsearch node metricset
- Elasticsearch node_stats metricset
- Elasticsearch pending_tasks metricset
- elasticsearch pending_tasks MetricSet
- Elasticsearch shard metricset
- envoyproxy module
- Etcd module
- Golang module
- Graphite module
- HAProxy module
- HTTP module
- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Kubernetes module
- Kubernetes apiserver metricset
- Kubernetes container metricset
- Kubernetes event metricset
- Kubernetes node metricset
- Kubernetes pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_container metricset
- Kubernetes state_deployment metricset
- Kubernetes state_node metricset
- Kubernetes state_pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_replicaset metricset
- Kubernetes state_statefulset metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
- Kubernetes volume metricset
- kvm module
- Logstash module
- Memcached module
- MongoDB module
- Munin module
- MySQL module
- Nginx module
- PHP_FPM module
- PostgreSQL module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- System module
- System core metricset
- System cpu metricset
- System diskio metricset
- System filesystem metricset
- System fsstat metricset
- System load metricset
- System memory metricset
- System network metricset
- System process metricset
- System process_summary metricset
- System raid metricset
- System socket metricset
- System uptime metricset
- traefik module
- uwsgi module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
- Exported fields
- Aerospike fields
- Apache fields
- Beat fields
- Ceph fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- Couchbase fields
- Docker fields
- Docker fields
- Dropwizard fields
- Elasticsearch fields
- envoyproxy fields
- Etcd fields
- Golang fields
- Graphite fields
- HAProxy fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- Jolokia fields
- Kafka fields
- Kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Kubernetes fields
- kvm fields
- Logstash fields
- Memcached fields
- MongoDB fields
- Munin fields
- MySQL fields
- Nginx fields
- PHP_FPM fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Prometheus fields
- RabbitMQ fields
- Redis fields
- System fields
- traefik fields
- uwsgi fields
- vSphere fields
- Windows fields
- ZooKeeper fields
- Monitoring Metricbeat
- Securing Metricbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
Live reloading
editLive reloading
editYou can configure Metricbeat to dynamically reload configuration files when there are changes. To do this, you specify a path (Glob) to watch for module configuration changes. When the files found by the Glob change, new modules are started/stopped according to changes in the configuration files.
This feature is especially useful in container environments where one container is used to monitor all services running in other containers on the same host. Because new containers appear and disappear dynamically, you may need to change the Metricbeat configuration frequently to specify which modules are needed and which hosts must be monitored.
To enable dynamic config reloading, you specify the path and reload options
under metricbeat.config.modules in the main metricbeat.yml config file. For
example:
metricbeat.config.modules: path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml reload.enabled: true reload.period: 10s
-
path -
A Glob that defines the files to check for changes.
This setting must point to the
modules.ddirectory if you want to use themodulescommand to enable and disable module configurations. -
reload.enabled -
When set to
true, enables dynamic config reload. -
reload.period -
Specifies how often the files are checked for changes. Do not
set the
periodto less than 1s because the modification time of files is often stored in seconds. Setting theperiodto less than 1s will result in unnecessary overhead.
On systems with POSIX file permissions, all Beats configuration files are subject to ownership and file permission checks. For more information, see Config File Ownership and Permissions in the Beats Platform Reference.