- Heartbeat Reference: other versions:
- Heartbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Configure
- Monitors
- Task scheduler
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- script
- syslog
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Autodiscover
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- heartbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Exported fields
- Beat fields
- Synthetics browser metrics fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common heartbeat monitor fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Host fields
- HTTP monitor fields
- ICMP fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Process fields
- Host lookup fields
- APM Service fields
- SOCKS5 proxy fields
- Monitor summary fields
- Synthetics types fields
- TCP layer fields
- TLS encryption layer fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Heartbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- High RSS memory usage due to MADV settings
- Contribute to Beats
Add observer and geo metadata
editAdd observer and geo metadata
editIt is often useful to view and query various attributes of the instance Heartbeat is running on. This data is attached to events via the add_observer_metadata
processor. This processor populates the ECS observer.*
fields. One field of particular utility is the observer.geo.name
field, which you can configure via this processor. Use this field to create distinctive geographic regions for your uptime checks. You might label your regions by datacenter name or geographic region, e.g. virginia-dc-1
, or us-east-1a
, or virginia-us
.
Note that Heartbeat should not be used with the similarly named add_host_metadata
processor. In ECS parlance the host is the thing that is monitored, not the thing doing the monitoring, which is the observer.
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