diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 4dd7d83a032..7cbb5c2cbe5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 *Metricbeat*
 
 - Setting period for counter cache for Prometheus remote_write at least to 60sec {pull}38553[38553]
+- Add support of Graphite series 1.1.0+ tagging extension for statsd module. {pull}39619[39619]
+- Allow metricsets to report their status via control v2 protocol. {pull}40025[40025]
+- Remove fallback to the node limit for the `kubernetes.pod.cpu.usage.limit.pct` and `kubernetes.pod.memory.usage.limit.pct` metrics calculation
+- Add support for Kibana status metricset in v8 format {pull}40275[40275]
+- Add new metrics for the vSphere Datastore metricset. {pull}40441[40441]
+- Update metrics for the vSphere Host metricset. {pull}40429[40429]
+- Mark system process metricsets as running if metrics are partially available {pull}40565[40565]
 - Added back `elasticsearch.node.stats.jvm.mem.pools.*` to the `node_stats` metricset {pull}40571[40571]
 
 *Osquerybeat*
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/event.go b/metricbeat/mb/event.go
index 98430732ef4..fb6907b6396 100644
--- a/metricbeat/mb/event.go
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/event.go
@@ -214,3 +214,18 @@ func tryToMapStr(v interface{}) (mapstr.M, bool) {
 		return nil, false
 	}
 }
+
+// PartialMetricsError indicates that metrics are only partially filled.
+// This will be removed once we fix the underlying problem.
+// See https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/40542 for more details.
+type PartialMetricsError struct {
+	Err error
+}
+
+func (p PartialMetricsError) Error() string {
+	return p.Err.Error()
+}
+
+func (p PartialMetricsError) Unwrap() error {
+	return p.Err
+}
diff --git a/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go b/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go
index d41bdf01497..b6fc76e298c 100644
--- a/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go
+++ b/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package module
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/rand"
 	"sync"
@@ -253,6 +254,16 @@ func (msw *metricSetWrapper) fetch(ctx context.Context, reporter reporter) {
 		err := fetcher.Fetch(reporter.V2())
 		if err != nil {
 			reporter.V2().Error(err)
+<<<<<<< HEAD
+=======
+			if errors.As(err, &mb.PartialMetricsError{}) {
+				// mark module as running if metrics are partially available and display the error message
+				msw.module.UpdateStatus(status.Running, fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %v", msw.module.Name(), msw.MetricSet.Name(), err))
+			} else {
+				// mark it as degraded for any other issue encountered
+				msw.module.UpdateStatus(status.Degraded, fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %v", msw.module.Name(), msw.MetricSet.Name(), err))
+			}
+>>>>>>> 1f033c9eed ([metricbeat][system/process, system/process_summary]: mark module as healthy if metrics are partially filled (#40565))
 			logp.Err("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %s", msw.module.Name(), msw.Name(), err)
 		}
 	case mb.ReportingMetricSetV2WithContext:
@@ -260,6 +271,16 @@ func (msw *metricSetWrapper) fetch(ctx context.Context, reporter reporter) {
 		err := fetcher.Fetch(ctx, reporter.V2())
 		if err != nil {
 			reporter.V2().Error(err)
+<<<<<<< HEAD
+=======
+			if errors.As(err, &mb.PartialMetricsError{}) {
+				// mark module as running if metrics are partially available and display the error message
+				msw.module.UpdateStatus(status.Running, fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %v", msw.module.Name(), msw.MetricSet.Name(), err))
+			} else {
+				// mark it as degraded for any other issue encountered
+				msw.module.UpdateStatus(status.Degraded, fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %v", msw.module.Name(), msw.MetricSet.Name(), err))
+			}
+>>>>>>> 1f033c9eed ([metricbeat][system/process, system/process_summary]: mark module as healthy if metrics are partially filled (#40565))
 			logp.Err("Error fetching data for metricset %s.%s: %s", msw.module.Name(), msw.Name(), err)
 		}
 	default:
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/system/process/process.go b/metricbeat/module/system/process/process.go
index ad9fa8d5ac0..5693913ec1d 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/system/process/process.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/system/process/process.go
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ func (m *MetricSet) Fetch(r mb.ReporterV2) error {
 		procs, roots, err := m.stats.Get()
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("process stats: %w", err)
+		} else if (err != nil && errors.Is(err, process.NonFatalErr{})) {
+			err = mb.PartialMetricsError{Err: err}
 		}
 
 		for evtI := range procs {
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/system/process_summary/process_summary.go b/metricbeat/module/system/process_summary/process_summary.go
index c64a0c1d3e1..e6729fabd04 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/system/process_summary/process_summary.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/system/process_summary/process_summary.go
@@ -68,9 +68,18 @@ func New(base mb.BaseMetricSet) (mb.MetricSet, error) {
 // descriptive error must be returned.
 func (m *MetricSet) Fetch(r mb.ReporterV2) error {
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 	procList, err := process.ListStates(m.sys)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error fetching process list: %w", err)
+=======
+	procList, degradeErr := process.ListStates(m.sys)
+	if degradeErr != nil && !errors.Is(degradeErr, process.NonFatalErr{}) {
+		// return only if the error is fatal in nature
+		return fmt.Errorf("error fetching process list: %w", degradeErr)
+	} else if (degradeErr != nil && errors.Is(degradeErr, process.NonFatalErr{})) {
+		degradeErr = mb.PartialMetricsError{Err: degradeErr}
+>>>>>>> 1f033c9eed ([metricbeat][system/process, system/process_summary]: mark module as healthy if metrics are partially filled (#40565))
 	}
 
 	procStates := map[string]int{}