macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install metricbeatlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install metricbeat with Homebrew, chocolatey, Nix
Collect metrics from your systems and services. Version 9.4.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-23. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#metricbeat.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#metricbeatnixpkgs package indexes · metricbeat · source: raw.githubusercontent.com
Windows
Chocolateyverified · 92%
choco install metricbeatChocolatey community package catalog · metricbeat · source: community.chocolatey.org
overview
Package summary
Collect metrics from your systems and services
Project links
Commands and aliases
- metricbeat
history
Project history and usage
Metricbeat is one of Elastic's Beats, the lightweight data shippers used with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Elastic documentation defines it as a shipper installed on servers to collect operating-system and service metrics and send them to outputs such as Elasticsearch or Logstash; the Beats platform describes the broader family as small agents for moving operational data from many machines.
Project history
Metricbeat entered the Elastic Stack 5.0 line as the successor to Topbeat. Elastic's 5.0.0 release material says Metricbeat replaced Topbeat as the primary metrics collection tool in the stack, preserving host and process resource statistics while adding modules for systems such as Apache, HAProxy, MongoDB, MySQL, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ZooKeeper. A 5.0 alpha announcement introduced it as an extension of Topbeat for server-service metrics.
How it is used
In practice, Metricbeat is deployed as an agent on hosts, containers, or service nodes, with modules enabling metricsets for specific systems. It can send metrics directly to Elasticsearch or through Logstash, Redis, or Kafka, and it is often used to populate Elastic observability dashboards and stack monitoring indexes. In package-manager terms it is the metrics-focused Beat, adjacent to Filebeat for logs, Packetbeat for network data, Heartbeat for uptime, and Auditbeat for audit/security events.
Sources
- https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/metricbeat
- https://github.com/elastic/beats
- https://www.elastic.co/beats/
- https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-stack-5-0-0-released
- https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-stack-release-5-0-0-alpha-3
- https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring_container_resource_usage_with_metricbeat
- https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/metricbeat
security posture
Risk level: orange
formula declares a Homebrew service.
Risk classifier
orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure
Why
- formula declares a Homebrew service
Signals
- metadata:service
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Linux
/etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml/etc/metricbeat/modules.d/*.yml- Unix
{path.home}/metricbeat.yml{path.config}/modules.d/*.yml- Windows
{path.home}\metricbeat.yml{path.config}\modules.d\*.yml
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Linux
/var/lib/metricbeat/metricbeat.keystore- Unix
{path.data}/metricbeat.keystore- Windows
{path.data}\metricbeat.keystore
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
metricbeat | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version9.4.4
manager updated2026-07-23
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:metricbeat |
|---|---|
| Version | 9.4.4 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat |
| Repository | https://github.com/elastic/beats |
| Last updated | 2026-07-23T19:32:44+09:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
metricbeat
nix profile install nixpkgs#metricbeat- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Metricbeat
Chocolatey95%
metricbeat
choco install metricbeat- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Metricbeat
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation