diff --git a/.buildkite/pull-requests.json b/.buildkite/pull-requests.json
index bb074620ff65..5b631c82254a 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pull-requests.json
+++ b/.buildkite/pull-requests.json
@@ -96,22 +96,6 @@
             "skip_ci_on_only_changed": [ ],
             "always_require_ci_on_changed": ["^x-pack/libbeat/.*", "^.buildkite/.*", "^go.mod", "^pytest.ini", "^dev-tools/.*", "^libbeat/.*", "^testing/.*", "^x-pack/libbeat/.*"]
         },
-        {
-            "enabled": true,
-            "pipelineSlug": "beats-xpack-auditbeat",
-            "allow_org_users": true,
-            "allowed_repo_permissions": ["admin", "write"],
-            "allowed_list": [ ],
-            "set_commit_status": true,
-            "build_on_commit": true,
-            "build_on_comment": true,
-            "trigger_comment_regex": "^/test x-pack/auditbeat$",
-            "always_trigger_comment_regex": "^/test x-pack/auditbeat$",
-            "skip_ci_labels": [  ],
-            "skip_target_branches": [ ],
-            "skip_ci_on_only_changed": [ ],
-            "always_require_ci_on_changed": ["^x-pack/auditbeat/.*", "^.buildkite/.*", "^go.mod", "^pytest.ini", "^dev-tools/.*", "^libbeat/.*", "^testing/.*", "^x-pack/libbeat/.*"]
-        },
         {
             "enabled": true,
             "pipelineSlug": "beats-xpack-heartbeat",
diff --git a/x-pack/metricbeat/cmd/root.go b/x-pack/metricbeat/cmd/root.go
index 76ac09294408..e62ccd33c6cc 100644
--- a/x-pack/metricbeat/cmd/root.go
+++ b/x-pack/metricbeat/cmd/root.go
@@ -5,14 +5,11 @@
 package cmd
 
 import (
-	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
-	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/cmd"
-	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/cmd/instance"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/ecs"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/processors"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/publisher/processing"
@@ -47,19 +44,13 @@ var withECSVersion = processing.WithFields(mapstr.M{
 })
 
 func init() {
-	var runFlags = pflag.NewFlagSet(Name, pflag.ExitOnError)
-	runFlags.AddGoFlag(flag.CommandLine.Lookup("system.hostfs"))
 	globalProcs, err := processors.NewPluginConfigFromList(defaultProcessors())
 	if err != nil { // these are hard-coded, shouldn't fail
 		panic(fmt.Errorf("error creating global processors: %w", err))
 	}
-	settings := instance.Settings{
-		RunFlags:        runFlags,
-		Name:            Name,
-		HasDashboards:   true,
-		ElasticLicensed: true,
-		Processing:      processing.MakeDefaultSupport(true, globalProcs, withECSVersion, processing.WithHost, processing.WithAgentMeta()),
-	}
+	settings := mbcmd.MetricbeatSettings()
+	settings.ElasticLicensed = true
+	settings.Processing = processing.MakeDefaultSupport(true, globalProcs, withECSVersion, processing.WithHost, processing.WithAgentMeta())
 	RootCmd = cmd.GenRootCmdWithSettings(beater.DefaultCreator(), settings)
 	RootCmd.AddCommand(cmd.GenModulesCmd(Name, "", mbcmd.BuildModulesManager))
 	RootCmd.TestCmd.AddCommand(test.GenTestModulesCmd(Name, "", beater.DefaultTestModulesCreator()))