How to add geo information in Heartbeat?

[ozonshak]

Hello. I'm attempting to set up Heartbeat for the first time. I believe I have this setup and I'm doing some basic pings against some web sites. I've noticed that when you click into a heartbeat, it says "geo information missing". I've tried to follow the instructions indicated, but I'm still not seeing any geo information. I have my yml separted out into a separate folder via "heartbeat.config.monitors". In that path, I have this specified for each of my HTTP monitor types:

 processors:
  - add_observer_metadata:
  geo:
    name: us-east-1a
    location: "39.04810, -77.47280"

Not clear if anything else is needed. I've also tried setting up an index pattern in Kibana (against the heartbeat Elastic index) and trying to use the Maps feature (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/heartbeat-geoip.html), but I'm striking out there as well. Would appreciate some assistance. Thanks!

[shahzad31 (Shahzad)]

Hi @ozonshak seems like its rightly configured, i have mine like this

make sure you don't have any other processors with same name in file, if there is another below this with empty body, it will override it.

[ozonshak]

Thanks @shahzad31. I do have this processor listed 3 times in my YML file, but each is exactly the same (just 3 for each of my "http" monitor types for 3 individual URLs). I assume this is ok in my individual YML file and it doesn't have to be in the main heartbeat.yml? I believe I have tried that as well with no luck. Does anything else have to be setup for this or is the above the only configuration necessary? I have basically set up my own installation of Kibana, ElasticSearch, and Heartbeat. Nothing fancy, just basic Linux installations using the latest version v7.7.

[Andrew_Cholakian1 (Andrew Cholakian)]

@ozonshak usually this is set globally for the heartbeat instance in the heartbeat.yml. While it can be done per monitor that usually doesn't make much sense. See https://github.com/elastic/uptime-contrib/blob/master/testing/configs/demo.yml for an example of this configured correctly.

[ozonshak]

@Andrew_Cholakian1 Excellent! That worked. Not sure why this wasn't working from my separate YML monitor file or why it didn't work when I originally had this in the main file, but it seems to be working now.

So, I assume the only useful time when you would have multiple locations show up, would be having additional heartbeat instances running elsewhere, pumping data back into ElasticSearch from other locations?

[shahzad31 (Shahzad)]

Yup having additional heartbeat instance makes sense if you want to monitor your services from multiple locations.