# Get http site body content with metricbeat or heartbeat **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [July 18, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537 "2018-07-18T11:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/839c29/32.png) [@Aert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aert)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/1 "2018-07-18T11:54:50Z")
Hello, Sorry for the newbie request... I managed to deploy & configure metribeat & heartbeat to monitor a few things, and make some graphs. Unfortunately did not manage to get the body content of a simple webpage with the folowing http.yml configuration in metricbeat. Could you please tell how i can do this ? - module: http metricsets: ["json"] period: 10s hosts: ["localhost:8182"] namespace: "json\_namespace" path: "/TDV/isAlive" body: "" method: "GET" request.enabled: true response.enabled: true ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/2 "2018-07-18T22:47:13Z")
Is the endpoint you're trying to reach JSON? Are there any errors in the metricbeat logs? ---
**Author:** ![Aert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/839c29/32.png) [@Aert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aert)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/3 "2018-07-19T08:33:59Z")
No, the endpoint is not JSON. The logs show an error with the namespace (seems legit). Is it mandatory ? I also tried with the Metricbeat http module : metricsets: ["server"] And also with Heartbeat and did not succeed ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/4 "2018-07-19T16:08:00Z")
Hmmm, so the overall goal here is to fetch a webpage and get its contents. This sounds a lot like heartbeat, but you also want the HTTP body, which it doesn't store. Is that a correct understanding? May I ask what you want the body for? ---
**Author:** ![Aert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/839c29/32.png) [@Aert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aert)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/5 "2018-07-19T16:29:42Z")
You're absolutely right 🙂 I'd like to get the body of a very light life-test web page for monitoring and build watcher alerts. Do you think that's possible ? One desperate solution may be to get the body content with a wget and send the output to a log file which would be send to kibana with Filebeat, but that seems really... desperate and awfull. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-http-site-body-content-with-metricbeat-or-heartbeat/140537/6 "2018-08-16T16:29:48Z")
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