Metricbeat in Kibana

In this section, we'll focus on the different visualization the Metricbeat installation ships out-of-the-box in Kibana.

Importing the dashboard

Before importing the dashboard, let's have a look at the actual metric data that Metricbeat ships. As I have Chrome opened while typing this chapter, I'm going to filter the data by process name, here chrome:

Discover tab filtered by process name

Here is an example of one of the documents I have:

{ 
  "_index": "metricbeat-2016.09.06", 
  "_type": "metricsets", 
  "_id": "AVcBFstEVDHwfzZYZHB8", 
  "_score": 4.29527, 
  "_source": { 
    "@timestamp": "2016-09-06T20:00:53.545Z", 
    "beat": { 
      "hostname": "MacBook-Pro-de-Bahaaldine.local", 
      "name": "MacBook-Pro-de-Bahaaldine.local" 
    }, 
    "metricset": { 
      "module": "system", 
      "name": "process", 
      "rtt": 5916 
    }, 
    "system": { 
      "process": { 
        "cmdline": "/Applications/Google  
          Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/52.0.2743.116...