Kibana module

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There are two modules that collect metrics about Kibana:

  • The Kibana module tracks only the high-level metrics. The default metricset in this module is status.
  • The Kibana X-Pack module enables you to monitor more Kibana metrics with our monitoring feature. The default metricset in this module is stats.

Compatibility

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The Kibana module is tested with Kibana 6.3.

Example configuration

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The Kibana module supports the standard configuration options that are described in Specify which modules to run. Here is an example configuration:

metricbeat.modules:
- module: kibana
  metricsets: ["status"]
  period: 10s
  hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
  basepath: ""
  enabled: true

  # Set to true to send data collected by module to X-Pack
  # Monitoring instead of metricbeat-* indices.
  #xpack.enabled: false

This module supports TLS connections when using ssl config field, as described in Specify SSL settings. It also supports the options described in Standard HTTP config options.

Metricsets

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The following metricsets are available: