# Synthetics

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/c/observability/synthetics/75.md?page=9

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## [Uptime Alerts just not works](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-just-not-works/245139)

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**Author:** [@alex-rn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alex-rn)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [August 21, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-alerts-just-not-works/245139 "2020-08-21T15:49:59Z")

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Hello, I have successfully configured Heartbeat with Uptime and everything works well. But I have a very strange issues with Kibana Alerts. See screenshots. In Uptime Alerts I can see and use only the "MATCHING MONI…

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## [After creating Index in Heatbeat we are not able to see visualization in structured format](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-creating-index-in-heatbeat-we-are-not-able-to-see-visualization-in-structured-format/245811)

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**Author:** [@sai07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sai07)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 20, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/after-creating-index-in-heatbeat-we-are-not-able-to-see-visualization-in-structured-format/245811 "2020-08-20T21:38:40Z")

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Hi Team, we have created index to view our url monitor visualization with below script. we can see the output in unstructured format.can you please share some scripts to view the data in table format.

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## [How to create Document to Index in Heartbeat Uptime alert](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-document-to-index-in-heartbeat-uptime-alert/245445)

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**Author:** [@sai07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sai07)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 18, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-document-to-index-in-heartbeat-uptime-alert/245445 "2020-08-18T16:03:56Z")

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we have created hearbeat for crossing thresh hold. what we need to select in Document to index tab in Uptime alert? we are not able to see any docs count in index managment. Could any one please suggest to resolve thi…

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## [Create uptime alert when specific service is down](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-uptime-alert-when-specific-service-is-down/244844)

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**Author:** [@devwinner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/devwinner)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-uptime-alert-when-specific-service-is-down/244844 "2020-08-14T15:31:38Z")

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Hello everybody. I have started using Heartbeat few time now to create monitors for managing our web sites. I have created two monitors : type: http id: prometheus\_monitor name: Prometheus monitor status urls: \["h…

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## [Display response body of Heartbeat in Kibana Uptime](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-response-body-of-heartbeat-in-kibana-uptime/242011)

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**Author:** [@sbienert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sbienert)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-response-body-of-heartbeat-in-kibana-uptime/242011 "2020-08-03T11:33:31Z")

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Dear Elastic-Team, in Heartbeat I am calling the actuator (info) endpoints to verify if the services are running. The endpoints are responding with a json body that includes the version of the service. I would want to d…

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## [Kibana Uptime- Internal Server Error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-uptime-internal-server-error/242070)

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**Author:** [@vishakh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vishakh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-uptime-internal-server-error/242070 "2020-07-22T19:29:09Z")

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ELK-Stack Version: 7.8 Installed and configured Heartbeat agent on a linux server and the ping/logs are being ingested into elasticsearch. I do see the logs being populated under "heartbeat-7\*" index But when I visit u…

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## [Uptime not showing UP Down Monitors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-not-showing-up-down-monitors/240349)

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**Author:** [@Ameyamacha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ameyamacha)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 9, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-not-showing-up-down-monitors/240349 "2020-07-09T02:48:12Z")

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Hello We are using Elasticsearch cloud 7.8 with kibana 7.8 versions. I set up Heartbeat (using docker) and configured the heartbeat.yml properly. The configuration is setup to send the data directly to logstash. I see …

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## [Heartbeat POD crashes - Why?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-pod-crashes-why/238457)

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**Author:** [@vdelcampo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vdelcampo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-pod-crashes-why/238457 "2020-06-29T11:58:43Z")

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Hi. Im trying to run heartbeat on kubernetes. When i create the pod, it crashes and show this message: /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint: line 8: exec: heartbeat: not found This is my yml file: apiVersion: v1 kind: Po…

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## [High availability](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability/238097)

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**Author:** [@Mohammad\_Etemad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mohammad_Etemad)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability/238097 "2020-06-25T13:25:15Z")

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I was wondering if there is a way to have a heartbeat cluster? How can one have HA heratbeat? Is this even possible with heartbeat 7.x?

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## [Kibana plugin issues](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-issues/237804)

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**Author:** [@Nazeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nazeer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-plugin-issues/237804 "2020-06-25T02:22:02Z")

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I'm new to Kibana We have installed Kibana Basic version on Windows, uptime monitoring page is showing plugin error like below plugin:beats\_management@7.7.0 \[security\_exception\] missing authentication credentials for …

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## [Uptime monitor showing blank](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-showing-blank/238446)

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**Author:** [@nikul\_jain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nikul_jain)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-showing-blank/238446 "2020-06-25T02:10:52Z")

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Issue with monitor status kibana version : 7.5

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## [Heartbeat send other fields in alert message](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-send-other-fields-in-alert-message/237492)

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**Author:** [@matthiasbaldi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matthiasbaldi)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-send-other-fields-in-alert-message/237492 "2020-06-24T19:27:23Z")

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We created Alerts for Heartbeat Monitors on our Cloudinstance (7.7). Currently the alerts are working, but the content which is sent to the Slack channel is a bit weired. There are a lot of IDs like the following one:D…

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## [Uptime errors when using CCS](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-errors-when-using-ccs/237248)

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**Author:** [@soysali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/soysali)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-errors-when-using-ccs/237248 "2020-06-19T07:49:35Z")

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I installed and configured Heartbeat, Elasticsearch and Kibana 7.7, which works perfectly fine. I can see the resulting data on Uptime tab of Kibana. However I have other Elastic stack instances (also 7.7), so I have an …

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## [Uptime error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-error/234791)

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**Author:** [@h\_e\_m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/h_e_m)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-error/234791 "2020-06-19T00:39:11Z")

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Hi! I run elastic cloud with Kibana 7.6.1 since a few months, and my Uptime suddenly started to display Error: \[illegal\_argument\_exception\] Text fields are not optimised for operations that require per-document field d…

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## [Uptime showing no uptime moniters found even though can see heartbeat data in discovery tab](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-showing-no-uptime-moniters-found-even-though-can-see-heartbeat-data-in-discovery-tab/233954)

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**Author:** [@Abhilash1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhilash1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-showing-no-uptime-moniters-found-even-though-can-see-heartbeat-data-in-discovery-tab/233954 "2020-05-23T09:22:21Z")

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I recently installed logstash , kibana and elasticsearch 7.7 and currently running them inside a docker container , I have manually configured heartbeat on a remote machine and I can verify heartbeat is sending the data …

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## [Simple UI for application health status with context info](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-ui-for-application-health-status-with-context-info/232122)

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**Author:** [@morjo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/morjo02)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-ui-for-application-health-status-with-context-info/232122 "2020-05-12T17:26:35Z")

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is there a similar solution to https://stackstat.us/ the following URL is a real example of the RallyDev SaaS solution that provides a simple health status of the SaaS platform. http://status.rallydev.com/

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## [Alert once if monitor is down or comes back up](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-once-if-monitor-is-down-or-comes-back-up/226534)

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**Author:** [@irishwill2008](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irishwill2008)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 12, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alert-once-if-monitor-is-down-or-comes-back-up/226534 "2020-05-12T01:56:53Z")

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Hey guys, I am fairly new to this but I need some help with my watcher setup. I have setup Heartbeat and I currently have 7 monitors. i.e monitor-01 monitor-02 etc. I need help setting up my exact scenarios, I nee…

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## [Uptime module (Kibana)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-module-kibana/224870)

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**Author:** [@ManuelF](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ManuelF)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 31, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-module-kibana/224870 "2020-03-31T16:26:03Z")

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Hi, related to topic "Parse the field host" ( Parse the field host), I have another question, but the topic is closed. Is there a way to replace "icmp-anothericmp-ip@0.0.0.0" to show only "anothericmp" under Host colum…

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## [Index name that Uptime look for](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-that-uptime-look-for/221198)

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**Author:** [@leprovokateur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leprovokateur)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-name-that-uptime-look-for/221198 "2020-03-02T20:46:48Z")

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Hi, I want to have different users not to be able to see all uptime data in the Uptime app. My approach would be to have different heartbeat instances creating indices with different names and set the permissions for th…

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## [Uptime displaying cumulative number of up and down monitors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-displaying-cumulative-number-of-up-and-down-monitors/219025)

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**Author:** [@bwright1558](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bwright1558)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2020, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-displaying-cumulative-number-of-up-and-down-monitors/219025 "2020-02-24T17:08:53Z")

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After upgrading Elasticsearch and Kibana to version 7.6.0, Uptime is now displaying the cumulative counts for up and down monitors. My 600+ HTTP heartbeat monitors run once every 2 hours. When I filter by downed monitors…

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## [Uptime (Monitor Status) doesn't show my 22 services (show randonly) but not the total](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-status-doesnt-show-my-22-services-show-randonly-but-not-the-total/218988)

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**Author:** [@rafaelcassau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rafaelcassau)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-monitor-status-doesnt-show-my-22-services-show-randonly-but-not-the-total/218988 "2020-02-24T14:48:42Z")

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I've configured heart-beat and uptime in the elastic stack cloud, but after I've added my 22 endpoints I noticed that the sections "All monitors are up" and "Pings over time" are work correctly but the section "Monitor S…

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## [There was an error retrieving the index pattern](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-was-an-error-retrieving-the-index-pattern/218610)

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**Author:** [@OrangeDog](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/OrangeDog)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/there-was-an-error-retrieving-the-index-pattern/218610 "2020-02-12T14:01:58Z")

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Continuing https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-5-there-was-an-error-retrieving-the-index-pattern/210742 I had the same issue and tried removing the xpack.security.enabled: false setting. However, then kibana failed to comple…

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## [\[Heartbeat\] Checking multiple http response codes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-checking-multiple-http-response-codes/214959)

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**Author:** [@seblg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seblg)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [January 30, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-checking-multiple-http-response-codes/214959 "2020-01-30T18:20:13Z")

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Hi, We've started using heartbeat agents (6.8.2) and uptime monitoring for monitoring api endpoints. We'd like to attribute all http reponse codes which are not 500 or 503 as being "up", going through documentation thi…

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## [Missing info in dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-info-in-dashboard/215129)

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**Author:** [@Heatzone87](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Heatzone87)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-info-in-dashboard/215129 "2020-01-24T08:41:24Z")

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Hey, I have Heartbeat running. It is registering data correctly however in Kibana i cant see any monitors? The graph itself shows that it is registering data. Best Pim

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## [\[7.5\] There was an error retrieving the index pattern](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-5-there-was-an-error-retrieving-the-index-pattern/210742)

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**Author:** [@robrotheram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robrotheram)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-5-there-was-an-error-retrieving-the-index-pattern/210742 "2020-01-07T21:37:08Z")

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I just updated to 7.4.0 -\> 7.5.0 and in uptime I now see below the query bar the warning There was an error retrieving the index pattern But I can see all 100+ monitors and can filter on location. But the query bar …

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## [Uptime indices setting available?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-indices-setting-available/212311)

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**Author:** [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 2, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-indices-setting-available/212311 "2020-01-02T13:43:46Z")

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Hi, in the spaces I've created, I limit access to certain indices, so space A has access to heartbeat-a-\* indices and space B has access to heartbeat-b-\* indices only. I've created role A and role B to achieve this. In…

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## [Uptime Availability Solution](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-availability-solution/212071)

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**Author:** [@Mauricio\_Borges](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mauricio_Borges)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 17, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-availability-solution/212071 "2019-12-17T20:49:17Z")

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Heartbeat and Uptime are great tools to probe ICMP, TCP Ports and Webpages. However going further I'd like to know if exist or there plans to provide Reports and Visualizations/Dashboards. Such as: System and Services…

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## [Uptime 7.5: Overview pagination settings](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-7-5-overview-pagination-settings/210259)

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**Author:** [@Slavik\_Fursov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Slavik_Fursov)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 5, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/uptime-7-5-overview-pagination-settings/210259 "2019-12-05T18:51:18Z")

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Upgraded to 7.5 I see, that Uptime app now has pagination. ok. However, it looks like I can't change number of rows per page. Is it true? Looks to be major omission. The app (only 10 rows) now looks strange on my 32" …

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## [Links in uptime do not work \[7.4\]](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/links-in-uptime-do-not-work-7-4/206983)

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**Author:** [@robrotheram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robrotheram)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/links-in-uptime-do-not-work-7-4/206983 "2019-11-12T22:28:00Z")

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I have upgraded to kibana 7.4 from 6.7 and the links in uptime to view in infra UI or Logui do not work. I running kibana through nginx and I have a basepath set to /kibana . I have set up a rewrite rule in nginx rewr…

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## [Allow monitoring of metricbeat uptime data in Kibana Uptime app](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allow-monitoring-of-metricbeat-uptime-data-in-kibana-uptime-app/205395)

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**Author:** [@bruce289](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bruce289)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allow-monitoring-of-metricbeat-uptime-data-in-kibana-uptime-app/205395 "2019-11-07T21:32:58Z")

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Hi, The metricbeat system module is able to ship uptime metrics to elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-uptime.html It would be great if these were made a…

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