The Beat module contains a minimal set of metrics to enable monitoring of any Beat or other software based on libbeat across
multiple versions. To monitor more Beat metrics, use our {stack-ov}/xpack-monitoring.html[monitoring] feature.

The default metricset is `stats`.

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=== Compability

The Beat module is tested with Metricbeat 7.2 and is expected to work with all 7.x versions.
