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System Memory Metricset

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System Memory Metricset

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The System memory metricset provides memory statistics.

This metricset is available on:

  • Darwin
  • FreeBSD
  • Linux
  • OpenBSD
  • Windows

Fields

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For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2016-05-23T08:05:34.853Z",
    "beat": {
        "hostname": "host.example.com",
        "name": "host.example.com"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "module": "system",
        "name": "memory",
        "rtt": 115
    },
    "system": {
        "memory": {
            "actual": {
                "free": 5786603520,
                "used": {
                    "bytes": 2575933440,
                    "pct": 0.308
                }
            },
            "free": 286552064,
            "swap": {
                "free": 4197806080,
                "total": 4199542784,
                "used": {
                    "bytes": 1736704,
                    "pct": 0.0004
                }
            },
            "total": 8362536960,
            "used": {
                "bytes": 8075984896,
                "pct": 0.9657
            }
        }
    },
    "type": "metricsets"
}
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