# Heartbeat is not sending anything to Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [April 21, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148 "2017-04-21T05:50:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![mathias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mathias/32/23176_2.png) [@mathias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathias)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148/1 "2017-04-21T05:50:29Z")

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Hi,

I think I am missing something.  
I have started heartbeat. I see that dashboards are created in Kibana but there is no data from heartbeat.

What is missing?

> heartbeat.monitors:
> 
> - type: http  
> urls: ["[http://consul.service.consul:8500](http://consul.service.consul:8500)","elasticsearch.service.consul:9200"]  
> schedule: '@every 5s'  
> timeout: 16s

> output.elasticsearch:  
> hosts: ["elasticsearch.service.consul:9200"]

> logging.level: debug  
> logging.selectors: ["\*"]  
> logging.metrics.enabled: true  
> logging.to\_files: true  
> logging.files:  
> path: /var/log/heartbeat  
> name: heartbeat

Are there any more configuration I need to do?

This is the log:

> 2017-04-21T05:42:00Z INFO Kibana dashboards successfully loaded.  
> 2017-04-21T05:42:00Z INFO heartbeat start running.  
> 2017-04-21T05:42:00Z INFO heartbeat is running! Hit CTRL-C to stop it.  
> 2017-04-21T05:42:00Z DBG Start scheduler.  
> 2017-04-21T05:42:29Z INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: libbeat.es.publish.read\_bytes=4432 libbeat.es.publish.write\_bytes=22521  
> 2017-04-21T05:42:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:43:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:43:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:44:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:44:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:45:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:45:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:46:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:46:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:47:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:47:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:48:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:48:59Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s  
> 2017-04-21T05:49:29Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30

curl elasticsearch:9200/\_cat/indices?v

> health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
> yellow open .kibana NjBHLO5kQk6Za0hNEJFmHA 5 1 110 71 376.1kb 376.1kb  
> yellow open metricbeat-2017.04.21 BNilHxvPRJGKdJXL-KmyWg 5 1 208947 0 141mb 141mb  
> yellow open filebeat-2017.04.21 2xXKrGslRWGs2\_4Jm6IULA 5 1 16808 0 16.7mb 16.7mb

Br Mathias

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148/2 "2017-04-21T09:23:33Z")

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Is this the complete debug log? Enabling all selectors, heartbeat should log jobs being created and log a message whenever a job is run + log the actual event being published.

I can't tell anything wrong from config file.

Setting debug selectors on command line via `-d "*,config"` will print the configuration in JSON format for better inspection.

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**Author:** ![mathias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mathias/32/23176_2.png) [@mathias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathias)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148/3 "2017-04-21T13:03:36Z")

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Hi Steffens,

Here comes -d "\*,config" output

> heartbeat.sh -d "_,config"  
> heartbeat2017/04/21 12:50:58.956008 config.go:275: DBG CLI setting overwrites (-E flag):  
> {  
> "path": {  
> "config": "/etc/heartbeat",  
> "data": "/var/lib/heartbeat",  
> "home": "/usr/share/heartbeat",  
> "logs": "/var/log/heartbeat"  
> }  
> }  
> heartbeat2017/04/21 12:50:58.957470 config.go:275: DBG load config file '/etc/heartbeat/heartbeat.yml' =\>  
> {  
> "dashboards": {  
> "enabled": true,  
> "index": "heartbeat-_"  
> },  
> "heartbeat": {  
> "monitors": [  
> {  
> "schedule": "@every 5s",  
> "timeout": "16s",  
> "type": "http",  
> "urls": [  
> "xxxxx",  
> "xxxxx"  
> ]  
> }  
> ]  
> },  
> "logging": {  
> "files": {  
> "keepfiles": 2,  
> "name": "heartbeat",  
> "path": "/var/log/heartbeat",  
> "rotateeverybytes": 10485760  
> },  
> "level": "debug",  
> "metrics": {  
> "enabled": true  
> },  
> "selectors": [  
> "_"  
> ],  
> "to\_files": true  
> },  
> "name": "heartbeat",  
> "output": {  
> "elasticsearch": {  
> "hosts": [  
> "xxxxx"  
> ]  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> heartbeat2017/04/21 12:50:58.957623 config.go:275: DBG Complete configuration loaded:  
> {  
> "dashboards": {  
> "enabled": true,  
> "index": "heartbeat-_"  
> },  
> "heartbeat": {  
> "monitors": [  
> {  
> "schedule": "@every 5s",  
> "timeout": "16s",  
> "type": "http",  
> "urls": [  
> "xxxxx",  
> "xxxxx"  
> ]  
> }  
> ]  
> },  
> "logging": {  
> "files": {  
> "keepfiles": 2,  
> "name": "heartbeat",  
> "path": "/var/log/heartbeat",  
> "rotateeverybytes": 10485760  
> },  
> "level": "debug",  
> "metrics": {  
> "enabled": true  
> },  
> "selectors": [  
> "\*"  
> ],  
> "to\_files": true  
> },  
> "name": "heartbeat",  
> "output": {  
> "elasticsearch": {  
> "hosts": [  
> "xxxxx"  
> ]  
> }  
> },  
> "path": {  
> "config": "/etc/heartbeat",  
> "data": "/var/lib/heartbeat",  
> "home": "/usr/share/heartbeat",  
> "logs": "/var/log/heartbeat"  
> }  
> }

From this I get the following log:

> sudo cat /var/log/heartbeat/heartbeat  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Metrics logging every 30s  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Home path: [/usr/share/heartbeat] Config path: [/etc/heartbeat] Data path: [/var/lib/heartbeat] Logs path: [/var/log/heartbeat]  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Setup Beat: heartbeat; Version: 5.3.1  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG Processors:  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG Initializing output plugins  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG Configure output plugin 'elasticsearch' with:  
> {  
> "hosts": [  
> "xxxxx"  
> ]  
> }  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Loading template enabled. Reading template file: /etc/heartbeat/heartbeat.template.json  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 2.x. Reading template file: /etc/heartbeat/heartbeat.template-es2x.json  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Elasticsearch url: [http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin.  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG Create output worker  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled.  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Publisher name: heartbeat  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 50  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG create bulk processing worker (interval=1s, bulk size=50)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z WARN Beta: Heartbeat is beta software  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Select (active) monitor http  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z ERR failed to load monitor tasks: missing port in address when initializing monitor http(0)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z INFO Elasticsearch url: [http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG ES Ping(url=[http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200), timeout=1m30s)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z DBG Ping request failed with: Get [http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200): dial tcp 10.68.32.181:9200: getsockopt: connection refused  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z ERR Error connecting to Elasticsearch: [http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200)  
> 2017-04-21T11:36:02Z CRIT Exiting: Error creating ES client: Couldn't connect to any of the configured \> Elasticsearch hosts

It is complaining about port number:  
ERR failed to load monitor tasks: missing port in address when initializing monitor http(0)

Br Mathias

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**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148/4 "2017-04-21T13:18:30Z")

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> [@mathias](#):
>
> /etc/heartbeat/heartbeat

Problem found!

I had missed http:// in the following line:  
urls: ["[http://consul.service.consul:8500](http://consul.service.consul:8500)","elasticsearch.service.consul:9200"]

It should be:  
urls: ["[http://consul.service.consul:8500](http://consul.service.consul:8500)","[http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200](http://elasticsearch.service.consul:9200)"]

Br Mathias

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**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-is-not-sending-anything-to-elasticsearch/83148/5 "2017-05-19T13:19:05Z")

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