- 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
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Heartbeat uses too much bandwidth
editHeartbeat uses too much bandwidth
editIf you need to limit bandwidth usage, we recommend that you configure the network stack on your OS to perform bandwidth throttling.
For example, the following Linux commands cap the connection between Heartbeat and Logstash by setting a limit of 50 kbps on TCP connections over port 5044:
tc qdisc add dev $DEV root handle 1: htb tc class add dev $DEV parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 50kbps ceil 50kbps tc filter add dev $DEV parent 1:0 prio 1 protocol ip handle 10 fw flowid 1:10 iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 5044 -j MARK --set-mark 10
Using OS tools to perform bandwidth throttling gives you better control over policies. For example, you can use OS tools to cap bandwidth during the day, but not at night. Or you can leave the bandwidth uncapped, but assign a low priority to the traffic.
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