# Config for Monitoring Windows Services by heartbeat error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** heartbeat
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999 "2020-04-07T19:46:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999/1 "2020-04-07T19:46:10Z")
I have my elasticsearch, logstash, kibana running inside docker. The files filebeat ships are from another server. Firstly, I just want to see if up/down status is provided for windows services.
- Can I install heartbeat on the filebeat server where my logs are or is it better to install on docker?
- If I install heartbeat inside docker ,this will be my configuration file for heartbeat-
```auto
heartbeat.monitors:
- type: icmp
hosts: ["xxxxx"]
schedule: '@every 10s'
timeout: 16s
- type: icmp
hosts: ["xxxx"]
```
I am not sure how to define monitoring windows service's for url.
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999/2 "2020-04-07T19:47:15Z")
@Andrew_Cholakian1 I read your comment on a post similar to this. Could you please help?
> [@Heartbeat Monitoring for Windows Servers](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-for-windows-servers/202227):
>
> I have tried to setup heartbeat monitoring for windows servers. I have setup IMCP through the Module.d folder. The heartbeat service starts and shows the server as up. I can power down the server and the monitor still shows as up. How can I fix this and what did I not setup correctly? Thanks in Advance
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999/3 "2020-04-14T02:08:08Z")
We only support monitoring of `icmp`/`tcp`/`http` with heartbeat. If your service responds to these protocols you can monitor that.
Generally, people install a central heartbeat or two to monitor many boxes, but you don't have to do things this way.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/config-for-monitoring-windows-services-by-heartbeat-error/226999/4 "2020-05-12T02:08:09Z")
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