# Heartbeat Down Counter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 4, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817 "2021-10-04T12:44:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@maltewhiite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maltewhiite)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817/1 "2021-10-04T12:44:32Z")
How do I make a simple counter, that show how many of my hosts are down?
We are running heartbeat.
I'd think it was simple to make this, but I can't figure it out.
How do I make a simple counter that show how many of the lastest pings to hosts have returned "down"?
Or can I make a treemap or Donut or something, so I can also know which hosts those are.
This is probably really obvious, but I can't figure out how to make this. Seems like a common use-case.
EDIT: I just checked the server that is down, via Discover, and Heartbeat just stops checking the server when it dies? Then what is the point of Heartbeat? How do I then check if my servers are up or down? I thought that was the whole idea behind Heartbeat? Have I misunderstood something?
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### Author:  [@maltewhiite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maltewhiite)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817/2 "2021-10-21T11:23:49Z")
What is the point of Heartbeat, if it stops logging, when the host dies? I thought it would then create logs that show that the host is down. Have I completely misunderstood something very fundamental here?
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817/3 "2021-10-21T15:16:27Z")
The view in Observability \> Uptime should give you exactly what you want: [Uptime monitoring | Observability Guide [7.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/monitor-uptime.html)
It's difficult to re-build these views with the regular visualizations - Is there something specific missing in the uptime app for your case?
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### Author:  [@maltewhiite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maltewhiite)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817/4 "2021-10-22T07:59:18Z")
Thank you Flash. I had indeed missed something very basic. I was trying to make that Observability \> Uptime page in a Custom Dashboard basically.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-down-counter/285817/5 "2021-11-19T07:59:25Z")
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