# Heartbeat testing Gateway

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [September 2, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174 "2021-09-02T13:51:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PraveenKT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praveenkt/32/35483_2.png) [@PraveenKT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PraveenKT)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174/1 "2021-09-02T13:51:18Z")

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Hello Team,

we have only 1 internet link in our central location and monitoing multiple wan links of multiple locations. When central internet link went down uptime(dashborads) is showing as the all the sites down. Is there any option to check the local gateway/inernet link status and if it is up then only check the remaing locations.

Thank you,  
Praveen

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174/2 "2021-09-02T14:22:50Z")

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It's an interesting question! It may be best to put heartbeat in a highly available datacenter.

It is one of the challenges of monitoring, you're not just testing the endpoint, but the source as well.

Another solution is to check from multiple locations.

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**Author:** ![PraveenKT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praveenkt/32/35483_2.png) [@PraveenKT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PraveenKT)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174/3 "2021-09-03T11:08:47Z")

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otherwise Can you please add the option to check the local gateway/wan link, if it is up thenonly test the remote locations?

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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:** [October 1, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-testing-gateway/283174/4 "2021-10-01T13:09:02Z")

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