Ship system metrics

Configuration

Before you begin, you’ll need: Metricbeat 7.1 or higher

Download the Logz.io certificate

Download the Logz.io public certificate to your certificate authority folder.

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logzio/public-certificates/master/COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt -P /etc/pki/tls/certs/

Add Logz.io configuration

Replace the General configuration with Logz.io settings.

Replace <<SHIPPING-TOKEN>> with the token of the account you want to ship to.

# ===== General =====
fields:
  logzio_codec: json
  token: <<SHIPPING-TOKEN>>
fields_under_root: true

Set Logz.io as the output

If Logz.io is not an output, add it now. Remove all other outputs.

Replace <<LISTENER-HOST>> with your region’s listener host (for example, listener.logz.io). For more information on finding your account’s region, see Account region.

# ===== Outputs =====
output.logstash:
  hosts: ["<<LISTENER-HOST>>:5015"]
  ssl.certificate_authorities: ['/etc/pki/tls/certs/COMODORSADomainValidationSecureServerCA.crt']

(If needed) Enable the system module

The system module is enabled by default. If you’ve disabled it for any reason, re-enable it now.

sudo metricbeat modules enable system

You can change the metrics collected by Metricbeat by modifying modules.d/system.yml. If you installed Metricbeat from a package manager, this directory is under /etc/metricbeat.

Start Metricbeat

Start or restart Metricbeat for the changes to take effect.

Check Logz.io for your metrics

Give your metrics some time to get from your system to ours, and then open Logz.io.