This section contains configuration options and some general settings to control the behavior of Metricbeat.

Some of these configuration options/settings are as follows:

• name: The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. By default, the hostname is used for this field, as follows:

name: "dc1-host1"

• tags: A list of tags that will be included in the tags field of every event Metricbeat ships. Tags make it easy to group servers by different logical properties and are useful when filtering events in Kibana and Logstash, as follows:

tags: ["staging", "web-tier","dc1"]

• max_procs: The maximum number of CPUs that can be executing simultaneously. The default is the number of logical CPUs available in the system:

max_procs: 2