Heartbeat (Experimental)
Welcome to Heartbeat.
This is a new EXPERIMENTAL beat for testing service availability using PING based on ICMP, TCP or higher level protocols.
Ensure that this folder is at the following location:
${GOPATH}/github.com/elastic/beats
Getting Started with Heartbeat
Requirements
Build
To build the binary for Heartbeat run the command below. This will generate a binary
in the same directory with the name heartbeat.
make
Run
To run Heartbeat with debugging output enabled, run:
./heartbeat -c heartbeat.yml -e -d "*"
Update
Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields
which is automatically generated based on etc/fields.yml
.
To generate etc/heartbeat.template.json and etc/heartbeat.asciidoc
make update
Cleanup
To clean Heartbeat source code, run the following commands:
make fmt
make simplify
To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:
make clean