How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat
[Metricbeat](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/metricbeat) is a lightweight data shipper that periodically collects system-wide and per-process CPU and memory statistics, and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics from your server to another server of the same kind with the [Elastic Stack](https://www.elastic.co/products/) installed. Choose your operating system below to get started.
CentOS
How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7
Ubuntu
How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04
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