mqttbeat

README

Mqttbeat

Welcome to Mqttbeat.

This beat will allow you to put MQTT messages in an elasticsearch instance.

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/github.com/nathan-k-/mqttbeat

Support

Hello, this project is no longer under work. Feel free to fork it, adapt it to your need, and improve it ! Cheers,

Getting Started with Mqttbeat

Requirements

• Golang 1.7 (1.8 recommended)

Init Project

To get running with Mqttbeat and also install the dependencies, run the following command, with glide installed:

glide install
pip install virtualenv (for the testsuite)
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 Mqttbeat in the git repository, run the following commands:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/nathan-k-/mqttbeat
git push origin master

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

Build

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

make

Run

To run Mqttbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

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

Test

To test Mqttbeat, 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 etc/fields.yml. To generate etc/mqttbeat.template.json and etc/mqttbeat.asciidoc

make update

Cleanup

To clean Mqttbeat source code, run the following commands:

make fmt
make simplify

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

make clean

Clone

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

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/nathan-k-/
cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/nathan-k-/
git clone https://github.com/nathan-k-/mqttbeat

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 package

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