Monitor services for their availability with active probing. Heartbeat is a lightweight daemon that you install on a remote server to periodically check the status of your services and determine whether they are available.
Heartbeat currently supports monitors for checking hosts via:
- ICMP (v4 and v6) Echo Requests. Use the icmp monitor when you simply want to check whether a service is available. This monitor requires root access.
- TCP. Use the tcp monitor to connect via TCP. You can optionally configure this monitor to verify the endpoint by sending and/or receiving a custom payload.
- HTTP. Use the http monitor to connect via HTTP. You can optionally configure this monitor to verify that the service returns the expected response, such as a specific status code, response header, or content.
- The tcp and http monitors both support SSL/TLS and some proxy settings.
- As administrator, enter the following command in Powershell or download the zip file here.
Start-BitsTransfer -Source 'https://github.com/themarcusaurelius/Heartbeat/archive/master.zip' -Destination 'C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\Heartbeat.zip'
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Unzip the package and extract the contents to the
C:/drive. -
Back in Powershell, CD into the extracted folder and run the following script:
.\installHeartbeat.ps1
- When prompted, enter your credentials below as well as the
URLthat you would like to monitor and click OK.
Kibana URL: _PLACEHOLDER_KIBANA_URL_
Username: _PLACEHOLDER_USERNAME_
Password: _PLACEHOLDER_PASSWORD_
Elasticsearch API Endpoint: _PLACEHOLDER_API_ENDPOINT_This will install and run heartbeat.
Data should now be shipping to your Vizion Elastic app. Check the Discover tab in Kibana for the incoming logs
Heartbeat comes with sample dashboards. For example:
