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.)
Here is how I solved it.
I opened a taskmgr in Windows. And I found the process.
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.
Run PowerShell as administrator. And type .\uninstall-service-metricbeat.ps1
to uninstall it.
Finally, in Kibana, from the moment when you uninstalled Metricbeat, it won't show any more data.