Overview

Httpbeat is the Beat used to call HTTP endpoints. Multiple endpoints can be configured which are polled in a regular interval and the result is shipped to the configured output channel.

Httpbeat is inspired by the Logstash http_poller input filter but doesn't require that the endpoint is reachable by Logstash as Httpbeat pushes the data to Logstash or Elasticsearch. This is often necessary in security restricted network setups, where Logstash is not able to reach all servers. Instead the server to be monitored itself has Httpbeat installed and can send the data or a collector server has Httpbeat installed which is deployed in the secured network environment and can reach all servers to be monitored.

Example use cases are:

• Monitor Apache Stats
• Monitor Java application with Jolokia
• Monitor Spring Boot Actuators

Configuration

Configuration Options

See here for more information.

Exported Document Types

There is exactly one document type exported:

• type: httpbeat http request and response information

Exported Fields

See here for a detailed description of all exported fields.

httpbeat type

{
  "_index": "httpbeat-2015.12.05",
  "_type": "httpbeat",
  "_source": {
    "@timestamp": "2015-12-05T11:16:13.070Z",
    "beat": {
      "hostname": "mbp.box",
      "name": "mbp.box"
    },
    "count": 1,
    "fields": {
      "host": "test"
    },
    "request": {
      "url": "http://httpbin.org/headers",
      "method": "get",
      "headers": {
        "Accept": "application/json",
        "Foo": "bar"
      }
    },
    "response": {
      "statusCode": 200,
      "headers": {
        "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": "true",
        "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
        "Connection": "keep-alive",
        "Content-Length": "220",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Date": "Sat, 05 Dec 2015 11:16:13 GMT",
        "Server": "nginx"
      },
      "body": "{\n  \"headers\": {\n    \"Accept\": \"application/json\", \n    \"Accept-Encoding\": \"gzip\", \n    \"Authorization\": \"Basic Zm9vOmJhcg==\", \n    \"Foo\": \"bar\", \n    \"Host\": \"httpbin.org\", \n    \"User-Agent\": \"Go-http-client/1.1\"\n  }\n}\n"
    },
    "type": "httpbeat"
  },
  "fields": {
    "timestamp": [
      1449314173
    ]
  },
  "sort": [
    1449314173
  ]
}

Elasticsearch Template

To apply the Httpbeat template:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_template/httpbeat' -d@etc/httpbeat.template.json

Build, Test, Run

# Build
GOPATH=<your go path> make httpbeat

# Test
GOPATH=<your go path> make test

# Run
./httpbeat -c /etc/httpbeat/httpbeat.yml

Contribution

All sorts of contributions are welcome. Please create a pull request and/or issue.