- Heartbeat Reference: other versions:
- Heartbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Configure
- Monitors
- Task scheduler
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- append
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Autodiscover
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- Feature flags
- heartbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Exported fields
- Beat fields
- Synthetics browser metrics fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common heartbeat monitor fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Host fields
- HTTP monitor fields
- ICMP fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Process fields
- Host lookup fields
- APM Service fields
- SOCKS5 proxy fields
- Monitor state fields
- Monitor summary fields
- Synthetics types fields
- TCP layer fields
- TLS encryption layer fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Understand logged metrics
- Common problems
- Heartbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- High RSS memory usage due to MADV settings
- Contribute to Beats
Configure Heartbeat monitors
editConfigure Heartbeat monitors
editTo configure Heartbeat define a set of monitors
to check your remote hosts.
Specify monitors either directly inside the heartbeat.yml
config file, or in external
dynamically loaded files located in the directory referenced by heartbeat.config.monitors.path
.
One advantage of using external files is that these can be automatically reloaded
without stopping the Heartbeat process.
Each monitor
item is an entry in a yaml list, and so begins with a dash (-).
You can define the type of monitor to use, the hosts to check, and other
optional settings that control Heartbeat behavior.
The following example configures three monitors checking via the icmp
, tcp
, and http
protocols directly inside the heartbeat.yml
file, and demonstrates how to use TCP Echo
and HTTP response verification:
# heartbeat.yml heartbeat.monitors: - type: icmp id: ping-myhost name: My Host Ping hosts: ["myhost"] schedule: '*/5 * * * * * *' - type: tcp id: myhost-tcp-echo name: My Host TCP Echo hosts: ["myhost:777"] # default TCP Echo Protocol check.send: "Check" check.receive: "Check" schedule: '@every 5s' - type: http id: service-status name: Service Status service.name: my-apm-service-name hosts: ["http://localhost:80/service/status"] check.response.status: [200] schedule: '@every 5s' heartbeat.scheduler: limit: 10
Using the heartbeat.yml
configuration file is convenient, but has two drawbacks:
it can become hard to manage with large numbers of monitors, and it will not reload
heartbeat automatically when its contents changes.
Define monitors via the heartbeat.config.monitors
to prevent those issues from
happening to you. To do so you would instead have your heartbeat.yml
file contain the following:
# heartbeat.yml heartbeat.config.monitors: # Directory + glob pattern to search for configuration files path: /path/to/my/monitors.d/*.yml # If enabled, heartbeat will periodically check the config.monitors path for changes reload.enabled: true # How often to check for changes reload.period: 1s
Then, define one or more files in the directory pointed to by heartbeat.config.monitors.path
.
You may specify multiple monitors in a given file if you like. The contents of these files is
monitor definitions only, e.g. what is normally under the heartbeat.monitors
section of
heartbeat.yml
. See below for an example
# /path/to/my/monitors.d/localhost_service_check.yml - type: http id: service-status name: Service Status hosts: ["http://localhost:80/service/status"] check.response.status: [200] schedule: '@every 5s'
Monitor types
editYou can configure Heartbeat to use the following monitor types:
-
icmp
- Uses an ICMP (v4 and v6) Echo Request to ping the configured hosts. Requires special permissions or root access.
-
tcp
- Connects via TCP and optionally verifies the endpoint by sending and/or receiving a custom payload.
-
http
-
Connects via HTTP and optionally verifies that the host returns the
expected response. Will use
Elastic-Heartbeat
as the user agent product.
The tcp
and http
monitor types both support SSL/TLS and some proxy
settings.
Looking for browser monitor options? Heartbeat browser checks are in beta and will never be made generally available.
If you want to set up browser checks, we highly recommend using Synthetics via Projects or the Synthetics app in Kibana to create and manage browser monitors.
If you need to refer to how beta Heartbeat browser checks were set up previously, refer to the Browser options documentation for 8.7.
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