Heartbeat

Unlike most Beats, which we install on edge nodes, we typically install Heartbeat as part of a monitoring service that runs on a separate machine and possibly even outside of the network where the services that you want to monitor are running.

To download and install Heartbeat, use the commands that work with your system (deb for Debian/Ubuntu, rpm for Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora, macOS for OS X, Docker for any Docker platform, and win for Windows):

• Ubuntu:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/heartbeat/heartbeat-6.2.1-amd64.deb
 sudo dpkg -i heartbeat-6.2.1-amd64.deb

• Red Hat:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/heartbeat/heartbeat-6.2.1-x86_64.rpm
 sudo rpm -vi heartbeat-6.2.1-x86_64.rpm

• macOS:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/heartbeat/heartbeat-6.2.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
 tar xzvf heartbeat-6.2.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

• Windows:
  1. Download the Heartbeat Windows ZIP file from the downloads page.
  2. Extract the contents of the ZIP file into C:\Program Files.
  3. Rename the heartbeat-<version>-windows directory to Heartbeat.
  4. Open a PowerShell prompt as an administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run as administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
  5. From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install Heartbeat as a Windows service:

PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Heartbeat'
PS C:\Program Files\Heartbeat> .\install-service-heartbeat.ps1

Before starting Heartbeat, you should look at the configuration options in the configuration file; for example, C:\Program Files\Heartbeat\heartbeat.yml or /etc/heartbeat/heartbeat.yml.