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What is the process name of Metricbeat? ( To stop the Metricbeat)


I'm trying out Elastic cloud. I've downloaded Metricbeat- System metrics (Windows version) and set it up on my local computer. I configured it so that I can see my local computer's memory, cpu, disk space, etc on my dashboard in Kibana on Cloud (Elastic Cloud).

I rebooted my local computer and expected Kibana not to get any more metric data from my local computer through Metricbeat. However, it is still getting data from my computer. 1) I want to know the name of the Metricbeat process. (I can't find it :( )

2) I want to know how to stop Metricbeat on my local machine. (If every time when I reboot my system, it also comes back up. Killing the process wouldn't work in this case.)


Solution

  • Here is how I solved it.

    I opened a taskmgr in Windows. And I found the process.

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    The name of Metricbeat process is metricbeat.exe.

    I killed the process, but it seems to run automatically when I restart my computer.

    I went into the folder where I downloaded and installed Metricbeat.

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    Run PowerShell as administrator. And type .\uninstall-service-metricbeat.ps1 to uninstall it.

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    Finally, in Kibana, from the moment when you uninstalled Metricbeat, it won't show any more data.

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