Impossible to get "system.process.cpu.total.ticks" field

[OlivierPT]

It seems like there is no way to activate the "system.process.cpu.total.ticks" field with Metricbeat. Tested with version 5.1.2 and 5.2.0, the "cpu_ticks" option doesn't work. It only adds ticks information in "cpu" and "core" modules events.
Either the option should also activate the fields for "process" module, either we need an additional option.

• Version: 5.1.2 and 5.2.0
• Operating System: Linux
• Steps to Reproduce: Start Metricbeat with "process" module activated and "cpu_ticks: true" option. Check in Elasticsearch/Kibana the content for "process" events. The "system.process.cpu.total.ticks" field is not present.

[tsg]

Thanks for the report. Looking briefly over the code, it seems that the process metricset has support for "ticks", but the configuration setting is never actually checked.

[OlivierPT]

Is this bug planned to be assigned/fixed in a futur version?

[ruflin]

@OlivierPT Definitively. We will try to look into this in more detail soonish.

[andrewkroh]

I opened a PR to fix this: #3776