Configuring data collector and aggregator

In the previous steps, we managed to deploy Metricbeat. Now, we need to start the actual configuration. So, let's go through the configuration procedure, step by step:

1. Go to /etc/metricbeat and open metricbeat.yml.

   Uncomment the lines that define elasticsearch as the target for Metricbeat. Now, we need to change one more thing. Find the line containing the following:

   setup.dashboards.enabled: false 

   Change the preceding line to the following:

   setup.dashboards.enabled: true

   We need to do this to load to dashboards so that we can use them.

2. The rest of the configuration is done from the command line. Metricbeat has a couple of commands that can be run, but the most important is the following one:

   metricbeat setup

   This command will go through the initial setup. This part of the setup is probably the most important thing in the whole initial configuration – pushing the dashboard templates to Kibana. These templates will enable...