# Heartbeat monitoring system resources utilization
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** heartbeat
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745 "2020-11-09T11:45:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/1 "2020-11-09T11:45:15Z")
Hello,
I wanted to ask what is a better approach in setting up for example icmp monitor for 1 minute ping:
1.) Schedule a monitor to start every 24h with wait 1m value?
2.) Schedule monitor every 1 minute with 1 minute wait value?
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/2 "2020-11-09T12:11:28Z")
Could you please explain why are you asking about this? Did you face any issue for any configuration?
You should be good to go with a standard cron expression (schedule). See: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/configuration-heartbeat-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/configuration-heartbeat-options.html)
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### Author:  [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/3 "2020-11-09T21:31:21Z")
Hi @mtojek
I just wonder if there is any difference. I need to set up a configuration for a few thousands hosts. So I was wondering if there's good and better approach.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/4 "2020-11-09T23:43:42Z")
@Adriann`wait` is basically the amount of time to wait for a response before retrying. You should go with the second option for your use case.
I've opened a PR to improve the documentation here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/22509](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/22509)
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### Author:  [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/5 "2020-11-10T01:13:52Z")
@Andrew_Cholakian1 thanks for your response Andrew! Now I understand the behavior I expirienced.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-monitoring-system-resources-utilization/254745/6 "2020-12-08T03:13:57Z")
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