# Heartbeat/Synthetics - Network Discovery

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [February 15, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403 "2024-02-15T17:19:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403/1 "2024-02-15T17:19:46Z")

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Hello,

Is there any plans for Elastic to incorporate network discovery in their Heartbeat/Synthetics?

The current method would be we would have to create icmp monitors manually to create a monitor in Heartbeat/Synthetics.

With network discovery, we can possible run a scheduled network icmp discovery, that will scan for any network devices in a network. The results lets us know which devices are out there and based on the interval if they are down or up. (Its quicker than manually inputting every IP/Host like Synthetics)

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**Author:** ![emilioalvap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emilioalvap/32/99310_2.png) [@emilioalvap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilioalvap)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403/2 "2024-02-26T16:57:00Z")

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Hi @erikg,

Thanks for your interest in Synthetics!

Heartbeat standalone supports [several discovery plugins](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/configuration-autodiscover.html). Due to some constraints, these are not part of the Synthetics offering at the moment.

If you have a use case that is not supported and you'd like it to be considered, I'd like to encourage to open an issue over a our [public repo](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&projects=&template=feature-request.md) explaining it in detail, so that we can discuss internally and prioritize accordingly.

Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403/3 "2024-02-28T22:47:56Z")

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Opened feature request:  
[[Heartbeat/Synthetics] Network Discovery Functionality · Issue #38145 · elastic/beats (github.com)](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/38145)

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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:** [March 28, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-synthetics-network-discovery/353403/4 "2024-03-28T00:48:47Z")

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