recordbeat

README

Recordbeat

Welcome to Recordbeat.

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/michael1589/recordbeat

Getting Started with Recordbeat

Requirements

• Golang 1.7

Init Project

To get running with Recordbeat and also install the dependencies, run the following command:

make setup

It will create a clean git history for each major step. Note that you can always rewrite the history if you wish before pushing your changes.

To push Recordbeat in the git repository, run the following commands:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/michael1589/recordbeat
git push origin master

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

Build

To build the binary for Recordbeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name recordbeat.

make

Run

To run Recordbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./recordbeat -c recordbeat.yml -e -d "*"

Test

To test Recordbeat, run the following command:

make testsuite

alternatively:

make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report

The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/

Update

Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields which is automatically generated based on fields.yml by running the following command.

make update

Cleanup

To clean Recordbeat source code, run the following command:

make fmt

To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:

make clean

Clone

To clone Recordbeat from the git repository, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/michael1589/recordbeat
git clone https://github.com/michael1589/recordbeat ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/michael1589/recordbeat

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

Packaging

The beat frameworks provides tools to crosscompile and package your beat for different platforms. This requires docker and vendoring as described above. To build packages of your beat, run the following command:

make release

This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The whole process to finish can take several minutes.