# Heartbeat Dashboard Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** heartbeat\ **Created:** [January 26, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206 "2018-01-26T14:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ninoslav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Ninoslav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ninoslav)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/1 "2018-01-26T14:49:26Z")
Hi guys, I have a few questions about hearthbeat. I am using ELK stack 6.0.0, and I have successfully installed hearthbeat, hearthbeat template, and dashboard. But I`am experiencing some limitations, which I'm not sure are they by designed or some kind of error. So in my hearthbeat.yml file I have defined more than 5 hosts to monitor, but in my dashboard in kibana, it only displays **max 5** hosts, no mater what i do max number of hosts displayed is 5, so i am not sure is it by design, or is there some error that i a doing. The other thing, that is bothering me is that I have set up icmp, and tcp monitors, and in my kibana, when i go to discover tab, i see the logs(messages) coming form icmp/tcp monitors, but there is no dashboard for icmp/tcp monitors. In /usr/share/heartbeat/kibana/default/dashboard there is only Heartbeat-http-monitor.json, so i am not shure is there no dashboard for icmp/tcp monitors, or am I doing something wrong. Here is my hearthbeat.yml file: ``` heartbeat.monitors: - type: http # List or urls to query urls: ["http://myhostip:5601"] # Configure task schedule schedule: '@every 10s' # Total test connection and data exchange timeout #timeout: 16s - type: http urls: ["http://somehostip:80"] schedule: '@every 10s' - type: http urls: ["http://somehostip:80"] schedule: '@every 10s' - type: http urls: ["http://somehostip:80"] schedule: '@every 10s' - type: http urls: ["http://somehostip:80"] schedule: '@every 10s' - type: http urls: ["http://somehostip:80"] schedule: '@every 10s' - type: icmp schedule: '@every 5s' hosts: ["somehostIP"] setup.template.settings: index.number_of_shards: 1 index.codec: best_compression tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"] setup.dashboards.enabled: true setup.kibana: host: "mykibanahost:5601" output.elasticsearch: hosts: ["10.129.0.17:9200"] ``` Thanks for help. Ninoslav. ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/2 "2018-01-26T15:07:01Z")
Hi @Ninoslav, We don't ship dashboards for all the use cases. The one that you are seeing is the only one at the moment. The good news is that Kibana is very flexible and you can edit it, or create a new one on top of it to adjust it to your needs. For instance, the max of 5 hosts is not a hard limit, it's just the visualization in the dashboards is limited to that, you can edit it and set a new limit. As for the other protocols, you will need to edit the visualizations to include them. Please consider contributing if you come up with something cool that may benefit others: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.2/new-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.2/new-dashboards.html) Best regards ---
**Author:** ![Ninoslav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Ninoslav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ninoslav)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/3 "2018-01-26T15:37:43Z")
Hi Exekias, Thank you for quick answer, The thing is that when i go to; > visualize -\> HTTP monitors -\> Options -\> Per page number is set to 10, but it is still displaying 5 hosts, when i lower it to less than 5 it takes hosts out, but by increasing a number over 5 it just displays extra blank rows. If I type in textbox IP of my host it displays every host that i have (more than 5), but on HTTP monitor, it only displays 5 per page 😕 Is there some config file that could be tempered, to get a desired functionality? Cheers. Ninoslav. ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/4 "2018-01-26T15:42:21Z")
Could you share a screenshot to see what we are talking about? ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/5 "2018-01-26T15:47:18Z")
> [@Ninoslav](#): > > number is set to 10, but it is still displaying 5 hosts, when i lower it to less than 5 it takes hosts out, but by increasing a number over 5 it just displays extra blank rows You also need to adjust the aggregations (Buckets) used in the visualization. In Kibana they usually default to max 5 to make the requests to ES less expensive. ![29%20AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/0/e0c67b465495db2a5cb00f5d7ce7619b508c1bfd.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ninoslav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Ninoslav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ninoslav)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/6 "2018-01-26T15:48:36Z")
Hi Exekias, Is this good enough? Visualization: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/d/ad0076b0c1fdb0b63aad621ef710346b44f697e7.png) Dashboard: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/c/3cc4c297d7ba6c89a9f1df1994ff9fb5a9bd599c.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ninoslav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Ninoslav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ninoslav)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/7 "2018-01-26T15:53:08Z")
Hi Andrewkroh, Thank you for your answer, it solved my problem. 😉 Thanks a lot m8. Cheers. Ninoslav. ---
**Author:** ![Ninoslav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/edb3f5/32.png) [@Ninoslav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ninoslav)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/8 "2018-01-26T15:55:05Z")
Exekias, This post can be marked as resolved, and closed. Thanks for help. Cheers. Ninoslav. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-dashboard-questions/117206/9 "2018-02-23T15:55:11Z")
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