- Version: Compared Metricbeat 6.7.1 with 7.0.0
- Operating System: Windows Server 2016
- Steps to Reproduce:
Enabled only the system process metricset:
- module: system
period: 10s
metricsets:
#- cpu
#- load
#- memory
#- network
- process
#- process_summary
#- socket_summary
#- core
#- diskio
#- socket
enabled: true
processes: ['.*']
When running Metricbeat v6.7.1 we see the following in the Performance Monitor tool:


When running with the v 7.0.0:


We notice the WMI provider host process is using more CPU when running Metricbeat v 7.0.0 than while running earlier versions of Metricbeat