Navigate to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat-oss and, depending on your operating system, download the ZIP/TAR file, as shown in the following screenshot. The installation of Metricbeat is simple and straightforward as follows:
For this tutorial, we'll use the Apache 2.0 version of Metricbeat. Beats version 7.0.x is compatible with Elasticsearch 6.7.x and 7.0.x, and Logstash 6.7.x and 7.0.x. The compatibility matrix can be found at https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility. When you come across Elasticsearch and Logstash examples, or scenarios using Beats in this chapter, make sure that you have compatible versions of Elasticsearch and Logstash installed.