Configure Metricbeat [configuring-howto-metricbeat]

::::{tip} To get started quickly, read Quick start: installation and configuration. ::::

To configure Metricbeat, edit the configuration file. The default configuration file is called metricbeat.yml. The location of the file varies by platform. To locate the file, see Directory layout.

There’s also a full example configuration file called metricbeat.reference.yml that shows all non-deprecated options.

::::{tip} See the Config File Format for more about the structure of the config file. ::::

The following topics describe how to configure Metricbeat:

• Modules
• General settings
• Project paths
• Config file loading
• Output
• SSL
• Index lifecycle management (ILM)
• Elasticsearch index template
• {{kib}} endpoint
• Kibana dashboards
• Processors
• Autodiscover
• Internal queue
• Logging
• HTTP endpoint
• Regular expression support
• Instrumentation
• Feature flags
• metricbeat.reference.yml