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:::::{admonition} Prefer to use {{agent}} for this use case? Refer to the Elastic Integrations documentation.
::::{dropdown} Learn more {{agent}} is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, forward data from remote services or hardware, and more. Refer to the documentation for a detailed comparison of {{beats}} and {{agent}}.
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This module periodically fetches metrics from CockroachDB.
The CockroachDB status metricset is compatible with any CockroachDB version exposing metrics in Prometheus format.
The CockroachDB module includes a predefined dashboard with overview information of the monitored servers.