diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 8bd298f3098..0547557dbdc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ TLS or Beats that accept connections over TLS and validate client certificates.
 - Add a `system/network_summary` metricset {pull}15196[15196]
 - Add mesh metricset for Istio Metricbeat module{pull}15535[15535]
 - Make the `system/cpu` metricset collect normalized CPU metrics by default. {issue}15618[15618] {pull}15729[15729]
+- Add support for Unix socket in Memcached metricbeat module. {issue}13685[13685] {pull}15822[15822]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/memcached/stats/stats.go b/metricbeat/module/memcached/stats/stats.go
index be66dfc3e68..52c938a6342 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/memcached/stats/stats.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/memcached/stats/stats.go
@@ -20,15 +20,20 @@ package stats
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"net"
+	"net/url"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/mb"
+	"github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/mb/parse"
 )
 
+var hostParser = parse.URLHostParserBuilder{DefaultScheme: "tcp"}.Build()
+
 func init() {
 	mb.Registry.MustAddMetricSet("memcached", "stats", New,
+		mb.WithHostParser(hostParser),
 		mb.DefaultMetricSet(),
 	)
 }
@@ -47,7 +52,12 @@ func New(base mb.BaseMetricSet) (mb.MetricSet, error) {
 // format. It publishes the event which is then forwarded to the output. In case
 // of an error set the Error field of mb.Event or simply call report.Error().
 func (m *MetricSet) Fetch(reporter mb.ReporterV2) error {
-	conn, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", m.Host(), m.Module().Config().Timeout)
+	network, address, err := m.getNetworkAndAddress()
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "error in fetch")
+	}
+
+	conn, err := net.DialTimeout(network, address, m.Module().Config().Timeout)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "error in fetch")
 	}
@@ -81,3 +91,15 @@ func (m *MetricSet) Fetch(reporter mb.ReporterV2) error {
 
 	return nil
 }
+
+func (m *MetricSet) getNetworkAndAddress() (network string, address string, err error) {
+	hostData := m.HostData()
+	u, err := url.Parse(hostData.URI)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = errors.Wrap(err, "invalid URL")
+		return
+	}
+	network = u.Scheme
+	address = u.Host
+	return
+}