diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index cf3d5d36c92..de7e8608e7e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Remove deprecated/undocumented IncludeCreatorMetadata setting from kubernetes metadata config options {pull}28006[28006]
 - Remove deprecated fields from kubernetes module {pull}28046[28046]
 - Remove deprecated config option aws_partition. {pull}28120[28120]
+- Improve stats API {pull}27963[27963]
 - Enable IMDSv2 support for `add_cloud_metadata` processor on AWS. {issue}22101[22101] {pull}28285[28285]
 - Update kubernetes.namespace from keyword to group field and add name, labels, annotations, uuid as its fields {pull}27917[27917]
 
diff --git a/libbeat/metric/system/process/process.go b/libbeat/metric/system/process/process.go
index 756f9d0e6a8..65b86f5ab67 100644
--- a/libbeat/metric/system/process/process.go
+++ b/libbeat/metric/system/process/process.go
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
+	"github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo/types"
+
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/common"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/common/match"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/logp"
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ type Process struct {
 	FD         sigar.ProcFDUsage
 	Env        common.MapStr
 
-	//cpu stats
+	// cpu stats
 	cpuSinceStart   float64
 	cpuTotalPct     float64
 	cpuTotalPctNorm float64
@@ -95,6 +97,7 @@ type Stats struct {
 	envRegexps  []match.Matcher // List of regular expressions used to whitelist env vars.
 	cgroups     *cgroup.Reader
 	logger      *logp.Logger
+	host        types.Host
 }
 
 // Ticks of CPU for a process
@@ -293,15 +296,11 @@ func GetOwnResourceUsageTimeInMillis() (int64, int64, error) {
 }
 
 func (procStats *Stats) getProcessEvent(process *Process) common.MapStr {
-
 	// This is a holdover until we migrate this library to metricbeat/internal
 	// At which point we'll use the memory code there.
 	var totalPhyMem uint64
-	host, err := sysinfo.Host()
-	if err != nil {
-		procStats.logger.Warnf("Getting host details: %v", err)
-	} else {
-		memStats, err := host.Memory()
+	if procStats.host != nil {
+		memStats, err := procStats.host.Memory()
 		if err != nil {
 			procStats.logger.Warnf("Getting memory details: %v", err)
 		} else {
@@ -427,6 +426,14 @@ func (procStats *Stats) matchProcess(name string) bool {
 // cannot be compiled.
 func (procStats *Stats) Init() error {
 	procStats.logger = logp.NewLogger("processes")
+
+	var err error
+	procStats.host, err = sysinfo.Host()
+	if err != nil {
+		procStats.host = nil
+		procStats.logger.Warnf("Getting host details: %v", err)
+	}
+
 	procStats.ProcsMap = make(ProcsMap)
 
 	if len(procStats.Procs) == 0 {