# Synthetics **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/synthetics/75.md?page=5 [Latest](https://discuss.elastic.co/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.elastic.co/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.elastic.co/tags.md) **Page:** 6 --- ## [Uptime Alerts False Alarms on All Monitors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-false-alarms-on-all-monitors/324822)
**Author:** [@WilAlcantara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WilAlcantara)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 10, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-false-alarms-on-all-monitors/324822 "2023-02-10T13:28:35Z")
Recently we experienced having a slew of alarms/notifications going to our slack channel without our instances actually going down. Uptime monitors also show they were up in the time we received the notifications. Is thi… --- ## [Synthetic browser tests are failing in Version 7.x](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-browser-tests-are-failing-in-version-7-x/324440)
**Author:** [@lawrance.ruban](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lawrance.ruban)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-browser-tests-are-failing-in-version-7-x/324440 "2023-02-02T23:55:44Z")
We are using 7.16.x ELK version in production and Dev environment and we are running heartbeat docker container v7.17.x for uptime monitoring. The http tests are working but the browser tests are failing with below error… --- ## [Will synthetic tests be added to other languages?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-synthetic-tests-be-added-to-other-languages/322739)
**Author:** [@ntmxglrtayl03](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ntmxglrtayl03)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-synthetic-tests-be-added-to-other-languages/322739 "2023-01-09T15:25:07Z")
I have checked in the documentation that the current syntax only includes js and ts, and whether I will consider adding other language versions, such as python, in the future --- ## [Kibana not showing Uptime Monitors added in Monitor Management or via Fleet Policy](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-uptime-monitors-added-in-monitor-management-or-via-fleet-policy/321322)
**Author:** [@rowra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rowra)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-showing-uptime-monitors-added-in-monitor-management-or-via-fleet-policy/321322 "2022-12-27T11:58:15Z")
I used to have several monitors added in Monitor Management and those showed up just fine in Uptime / Monitors. Now they don't. If I delete them / add them again nothing changes. If I add them manually via Integrations (… --- ## [Is there a way to see the script's console log on observability uptime monitor](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-scripts-console-log-on-observability-uptime-monitor/320496)
**Author:** [@ZaidMomin1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ZaidMomin1)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-see-the-scripts-console-log-on-observability-uptime-monitor/320496 "2022-12-08T13:19:37Z")
Hi, Hope you're doing well! We have written the journey for monitoring the web app using playwright and Typescript. We are facing a difficulty to view the script's console.log written with the step, on the uptime monit… --- ## [Uptime 8.5 Not showing in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-8-5-not-showing-in-kibana/318758)
**Author:** [@PublicName](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PublicName)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-8-5-not-showing-in-kibana/318758 "2022-11-17T05:40:34Z")
Kibana and Elastic version 8.5. 8.4.x all monitors where showing in Uptime in Kibana. Updated to 8.5 and now all are missing on several clusters all on 8.5. Checking the indices data is still being sent to ES as expecte… --- ## [Working with secrets and sensitive values with the Uptime App](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/working-with-secrets-and-sensitive-values-with-the-uptime-app/317126)
**Author:** [@Marchelune](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marchelune)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/working-with-secrets-and-sensitive-values-with-the-uptime-app/317126 "2022-11-04T17:03:55Z")
Hi there! I'm investigating the best way to monitor API uptime, and I have checked out the synthetics samples. A lot of APIs under test require authentication, thus some sort of credentials needs to be available during… --- ## [Heartbeat 8.5.0 mapper error workaround](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-8-5-0-mapper-error-workaround/318132)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-8-5-0-mapper-error-workaround/318132 "2022-11-03T18:59:08Z")
Hi all, Andrew from Elastic here, Tech Lead for Heartbeat. We're sorry to report that Heartbeat 8.5.0 has a severe bug that will break indexing in most installs after ~30m of runtime. The good news is there's an easy wor… --- ## [Is there any way to do monitoring for Websockets?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-do-monitoring-for-websockets/317124)
**Author:** [@Walter\_Hiranpat1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Walter_Hiranpat1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-do-monitoring-for-websockets/317124 "2022-10-20T19:28:35Z")
Hi I was wondering if there is any way to monitor websockets for uptime? I have heartbeat 8.4 installed. I would like to see some documentation or example for how might one implement monitoring for this. Thank you. --- ## [No Hosts Monitor Id or Url in Uptime](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-hosts-monitor-id-or-url-in-uptime/316913)
**Author:** [@lcsb-sysadmins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lcsb-sysadmins)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-hosts-monitor-id-or-url-in-uptime/316913 "2022-10-20T12:59:25Z")
Hello Team, We have successfully setup our Elastic Cluster - 7.17.5 with log-stash and search-guard. We have enrolled ~530 nodes in our elastic cluster. We tried to enable the HeartBeat to monitor/check the uptime of … --- ## [Uptime does not display the details accurately](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-does-not-display-the-details-accurately/316214)
**Author:** [@swchandu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swchandu)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-does-not-display-the-details-accurately/316214 "2022-10-17T15:09:25Z")
Hi, ELK 8.4.1 does not show correct details in uptime home. The graph is blank and monitors does not show correct time. But I can go through the monitor and check latest steps's data by clicking on next Did any one f… --- ## [This alert will apply to approximately 24 monitors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-alert-will-apply-to-approximately-24-monitors/316637)
**Author:** [@Nitin08bisht](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nitin08bisht)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 15, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/this-alert-will-apply-to-approximately-24-monitors/316637 "2022-10-15T18:55:22Z")
I am trying to create alert to monitor server for specific process but it is showing a message "This alert will apply to approximately 24 monitors". I want to create server specific alert for each process. How can I do?… --- ## [Heartbeat monitoring not work](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-not-work/316271)
**Author:** [@cheching](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheching)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-not-work/316271 "2022-10-14T09:44:44Z")
Hi All, I've encountered an issue when finished setup Uptime monitor under Observability. I'm not sure is that my configuration was incorrect or somewhere wrongly config, there're always show 0 monitors Please see b… --- ## [Disabling a monitor doesn't actually disable it](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936)
**Author:** [@woodywoodsta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woodywoodsta)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936 "2022-10-06T10:46:34Z")
Hey! I've got a couple of monitors disabled via the Monitor Management screen, but the monitors continue to run. Is this a known issue? My monitors are executed on fleet managed elastic agents via Kubernetes. I've tried… --- ## [How to delete stale project monitors?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-stale-project-monitors/315598)
**Author:** [@djkprojects](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/djkprojects)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-stale-project-monitors/315598 "2022-10-04T16:58:38Z")
Hello guys, We are testing the Project Monitors in 8.4.1 and accidentally deleted the project folder that we generetaed and pushed using NPM/NPX and now can't delete those monitors from Kibana. How can we do it manually… --- ## [Uptime Monitor Status Rule / Alert , Which field is considered to filter?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-status-rule-alert-which-field-is-considered-to-filter/314200)
**Author:** [@aji.shinde7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aji.shinde7)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-status-rule-alert-which-field-is-considered-to-filter/314200 "2022-09-28T22:56:34Z")
Hello Experts, I have configured Heartbeat. To reduce the data , I have used "include fields" processor as below. So, now I get data for below fields and metadata fields (default). the issue is , in "Uptime Monitor … --- ## [Kibana - Monitoring Management - Delete Project Monitors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-management-delete-project-monitors/314631)
**Author:** [@adsandie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adsandie)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-monitoring-management-delete-project-monitors/314631 "2022-09-20T17:03:15Z")
Hi, i tested docker elastic-agent-complete 8.4.1 and created a test uptime/synthetics project monitor, how do you delete it? It is saying that the monitor was added as an external project. to delete the monitor, remove i… --- ## [Synthetics 8.4.0 Release - New Workflow Video Walkthrough](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-8-4-0-release-new-workflow-video-walkthrough/314712)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetics-8-4-0-release-new-workflow-video-walkthrough/314712 "2022-09-19T16:27:26Z")
Hey all, it's a little late in coming seeing as 8.4.0 was released almost a month ago, but we wanted to give you a walkthrough of what's new with the Elastic Uptime / Synthetics workflow in 8.4.0. We're trying something … --- ## [Synthetic monitoring Timeout 30 seconds](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring-timeout-30-seconds/314367)
**Author:** [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring-timeout-30-seconds/314367 "2022-09-14T21:41:43Z")
Hi, Im new to Synthetic monitoring, after a month of good results, a couple of days ago the status of some of the monitors started to fail, with the error: Error message page.goto: Timeout 30000ms exceeded. The inlin… --- ## [Can I change the locations to local infra for the monitor using Project monitors to Synthetic monitoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-locations-to-local-infra-for-the-monitor-using-project-monitors-to-synthetic-monitoring/312398)
**Author:** [@odelacruzc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/odelacruzc)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-locations-to-local-infra-for-the-monitor-using-project-monitors-to-synthetic-monitoring/312398 "2022-09-13T21:03:07Z")
Can I change the locations to local infra for the monitor using Project monitors to Synthetic monitoring? In the future, we don't have any cost about that we will use the private infra elastic. --- ## [Help me, with synthetic monitor with hearbeat and zip url doesn't work](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-with-synthetic-monitor-with-hearbeat-and-zip-url-doesnt-work/312495)
**Author:** [@odelacruzc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/odelacruzc)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-me-with-synthetic-monitor-with-hearbeat-and-zip-url-doesnt-work/312495 "2022-08-26T16:31:16Z")
Please, help me, what another info do you need? {"log.level":"info","@timestamp":"2022-08-19T18:52:57.620Z","log.origin":{"file.name":"source/local.go","file.line":146},"message":"Ran /usr/share/heartbeat/.node/node/bin… --- ## [I want to write in another index with project monitor (synthetic monitor) It's possible?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-write-in-another-index-with-project-monitor-synthetic-monitor-its-possible/311232)
**Author:** [@odelacruzc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/odelacruzc)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-write-in-another-index-with-project-monitor-synthetic-monitor-its-possible/311232 "2022-08-16T22:09:50Z")
I want to write in another index with project monitor (synthetic monitor) It's possible?, I can to change the index synthetic-\* or write in other datastream? --- ## [The Walkthrough of Synthetics Public Beta is unavailable](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-walkthrough-of-synthetics-public-beta-is-unavailable/311278)
**Author:** [@Leandre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leandre)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2022, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-walkthrough-of-synthetics-public-beta-is-unavailable/311278 "2022-08-09T07:54:07Z")
When clicking the link given in the Beta acceptation mail, I get this : Error for Synthetics Public Beta Walkthrough - Album on Imgur --- ## [Getting 403 forbidden error while starting service for uptime monitoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-forbidden-error-while-starting-service-for-uptime-monitoring/310812)
**Author:** [@amseshadri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amseshadri)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-403-forbidden-error-while-starting-service-for-uptime-monitoring/310812 "2022-08-04T08:49:53Z")
Hi, I am trying to setup Uptime Monitoring for our application URL, and trying to setup the Elastic Observability Uptime Monitoring. While executing the below getting 403 Forbidden Error: .\\heartbeat.exe setup Error: … --- ## [Error While accessing http host from Uptime](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-accessing-http-host-from-uptime/310815)
**Author:** [@Sathish22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sathish22)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-while-accessing-http-host-from-uptime/310815 "2022-08-02T08:10:49Z")
Hi All, I have configured some HTTP-URL in Heartbeat for monitoring, and I can able to see URLs in KIbana-Uptime, but while selecting any URL/monitor it was giving the below issue Error: Cannot read properties of undef… --- ## [Uptime monitoring : Question on password vault support](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-question-on-password-vault-support/310235)
**Author:** [@swchandu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swchandu)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitoring-question-on-password-vault-support/310235 "2022-07-21T05:43:35Z")
Hi, Does uptime monitoring(heartbeat) support password retrieval from a remote password vault such as Hashicorp's vault. If so, could you please let me know the procedure/steps. Please let me know if you have a bette… --- ## [Monitoring synthetic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-synthetic/310042)
**Author:** [@renato473](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/renato473)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-synthetic/310042 "2022-07-20T15:17:48Z")
I have a question related to synthetic monitoring. the structure I have and fleet agent in docker environment and I wanted to know if only that is necessary to use the agent browser function or do I need something else. … --- ## [Add monitor name and URL on Uptime TLS Alert](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-monitor-name-and-url-on-uptime-tls-alert/309440)
**Author:** [@zvazquez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zvazquez)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-monitor-name-and-url-on-uptime-tls-alert/309440 "2022-07-14T01:41:03Z")
Hi, Is there any rule variable to add monitor name and/or URL? We are setting Uptime TLS Alert and we would like to add more context information into the action. We were able to add information about the Common Name by… --- ## [Elastic agent complete (7.17.1) stops working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-complete-7-17-1-stops-working/308616)
**Author:** [@Tzachi.shachar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tzachi.shachar)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-complete-7-17-1-stops-working/308616 "2022-07-05T19:07:44Z")
I have the elastic agent complete (7.17.1) docker running on AWS ECS (Faregate). After a few days of running, all monitoring are failing and no steps are executed. Did anyone have similar experience with that? Is there … --- ## [Synthetic Monitoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/302002)
**Author:** [@Rossana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rossana)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/302002 "2022-04-12T16:56:17Z")
Hi, I have this error on my synthetics test on Uptime Module: page.click: Evaluation failed: DOMException: Failed to execute 'evaluate' on 'Document': The string '\[href=/observability\]' is not a valid XPath expression. … [Previous page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/synthetics/75.md?page=4) [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/synthetics/75.md?page=6)