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}/src/github.com/elastic/beats

Getting Started with Heartbeat

Requirements

• Golang 1.7

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 fields.yml.

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