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[[beats-page]]
= Beats Monitoring Metrics
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<titleabbrev>Beats Metrics</titleabbrev>
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If you are monitoring Beats, the *Stack Monitoring* page in {kib} contains a
panel for Beats in the cluster overview.

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image::user/monitoring/images/monitoring-beats.png[Monitoring Beats]

To view an overview of the Beats data in the cluster, click *Overview*. The
overview page has a section for activity in the last day, which is a real-time
sample of data. The summary bar and charts follow the typical paradigm
of data in the Monitoring UI, which is bound to the span of the time filter.
This overview page can therefore show
up-to-date or historical information.

To view a listing of the individual Beat instances in the cluster, click *Beats*.
The table listing shows each Beat instance that reports data to the monitoring
cluster. All columns are sortable. Clicking a Beat name takes you to the detail
page. For example:

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image::user/monitoring/images/monitoring-beats-detail.png[Monitoring details for Filebeat]

The detail page contains a summary bar and charts. There are more charts on this
page than the overview page and they are specific to a single Beat instance.
