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[Metricbeat] add line about LSM ptrace blocks in the system metricset #11822

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add line about ptrace blocks in the system metricset
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make update
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions metricbeat/docs/modules/system.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ always applies to the local server, the `hosts` config option is not needed.
The default metricsets are `cpu`, `load`, `memory`, `network`, `process` and
`process_summary`.

Note that certain metricsets may access `/proc` to gather process information, and the resulting `ptrace_may_access()` call by the kernel to check for permissions can be blocked by https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/wikis/TechnicalDoc_Proc_and_ptrace[AppArmor and other LSM software], even though the system module doesn't use `ptrace` directly.

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions metricbeat/module/system/_meta/docs.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ always applies to the local server, the `hosts` config option is not needed.
The default metricsets are `cpu`, `load`, `memory`, `network`, `process` and
`process_summary`.

Note that certain metricsets may access `/proc` to gather process information, and the resulting `ptrace_may_access()` call by the kernel to check for permissions can be blocked by https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/wikis/TechnicalDoc_Proc_and_ptrace[AppArmor and other LSM software], even though the system module doesn't use `ptrace` directly.

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