# Alerting on Filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting, filebeat
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235 "2019-05-01T17:33:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@surya2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surya2)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235/1 "2019-05-01T17:33:43Z")
Hello,
I want to enable alerting on Filebeat. I want to send a email or message whenever filebeat service stops. How can i achieve it without curator.
Thanks,
Surya
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235/2 "2019-05-01T22:54:15Z")
You could use metricbeat to monitor the process, and then if it doesn't show up alert on that.
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### Author:  [@surya2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surya2)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235/3 "2019-05-02T14:25:18Z")
Thank you for the response,
I am using free version of ES and i do not have xpack license to monitor the process. Is there any script or job i can run every 5 mins to check the process is running and send an email if service is stopped?
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### Author:  [@aloulo47](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aloulo47)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235/4 "2019-05-02T14:40:41Z")
the best way and the easiest way to do is to use heartbeat to detect the availability of the endpoint filebeat and you alert when ever you receive down status
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alerting-on-filebeat/179235/5 "2019-05-30T14:40:45Z")
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