# Heartbeat autodiscover with Synthetic Monitoring

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-autodiscover-with-synthetic-monitoring/283303>\
**Category:** Synthetics\
**Created:** [September 3, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-autodiscover-with-synthetic-monitoring/283303 "2021-09-03T15:33:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andres\_Altamirano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andres_altamirano/32/94143_2.png) [@Andres\_Altamirano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andres_Altamirano)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-autodiscover-with-synthetic-monitoring/283303/1 "2021-09-03T15:33:46Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to use autodiscover from docker to create synthetic monitoring?

The problem is that for autodiscovery there is a need to read /var/run/docker.sock which only can be achieved running as root. In the other hand, synthetic monitoring scripts won't start if heartbeat is running as root.

I could not find answers to this in documentation.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-autodiscover-with-synthetic-monitoring/283303/2 "2021-09-27T15:34:01Z")

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