metricbeat-general-options.asciidoc

Configure general settings

General settings

You can specify settings in the {beatname_lc}.yml config file to control the general behavior of {beatname_uc}. This includes:

• Global options that control things like the maximum random delay to apply to the startup of a metricset.

• General options that are supported by all Elastic Beats.

Global Metricbeat configuration options

metricbeat.max_start_delay

The maximum random delay to apply to the startup of a metricset. Random delays ranging from [0, max_start_delay) are applied to reduce the thundering herd effect that can occur if a fleet of machines running Metricbeat are restarted at the same time. Specifying a value of 0 disables the startup delay. The default is 10s.

metricbeat.max_start_delay: 10s

timeseries.enabled

Setting this to true (false by default) will add a timeseries.instance field to all events generated by {beatname_uc}. For a given metricset, this field will be unique for every single item being monitored.

timeseries.enabled: true

{libbeat-dir}/generalconfig.asciidoc