# Heartbeat to every pod in kubernetes **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** heartbeat\ **Created:** [October 11, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-every-pod-in-kubernetes/152111 "2018-10-11T18:53:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pastorsx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pastorsx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pastorsx)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-every-pod-in-kubernetes/152111/1 "2018-10-11T18:53:34Z")
Hi, I am trying to use heartbeat to track availability of every pod in my kubernetes environment .... is there a way to do so. The add\_kubernetes\_metada doesn't seem to work and I assumed it should be something like this that needs to be used.... thanks, ---
**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:** [October 12, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-every-pod-in-kubernetes/152111/2 "2018-10-12T10:24:24Z")
In the 6.x branch we are hoping autodiscovery merged that should handle that. We are hoping to see it released for 6.5. See [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8593](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8593) and [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8557](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8557) . It works similarly to autodiscover for other beats. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-every-pod-in-kubernetes/152111/3 "2018-11-09T10:24:25Z")
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