metricbeat/module/beat/_meta/docs.md
The beat module collects metrics about any Beat or other software based on libbeat.
The beat module works with {{beats}} 7.3.0 and later.
The beat module can be used to collect metrics shown in our {{stack-monitor-app}} UI in {{kib}}. To enable this usage, set xpack.enabled: true and remove any metricsets from the module’s configuration. Alternatively, run metricbeat modules disable beat and metricbeat modules enable beat-xpack.
::::{note} When this module is used for {{stack}} Monitoring, it sends metrics to the monitoring index instead of the default index typically used by {{metricbeat}}. For more details about the monitoring index, see Configuring indices for monitoring. ::::