# How to check if Filebeat instances are alive or not and display it in a Kibana dashboard?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-if-filebeat-instances-are-alive-or-not-and-display-it-in-a-kibana-dashboard/73660
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [February 2, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-if-filebeat-instances-are-alive-or-not-and-display-it-in-a-kibana-dashboard/73660 "2017-02-02T11:23:00Z")
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### Author: ![elasticheart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticheart/32/65189_2.png) [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-if-filebeat-instances-are-alive-or-not-and-display-it-in-a-kibana-dashboard/73660/1 "2017-02-02T11:23:01Z")

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Hi,

I have a Logstash instance and several filebeat instances listening specific directories. All filebeats push data to Logstash. The files in log directories wont come in a regular basis, and the intervals can be seconds to minutes to hours. Is there any way to display filebeat instances as alive/dead in a Kibana dashboard (or a similar way), so that when I take that dashboard, I can see how many filebeats are up / not.

Thank you.

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### Author: ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-if-filebeat-instances-are-alive-or-not-and-display-it-in-a-kibana-dashboard/73660/2 "2017-02-02T13:16:57Z")

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We don't currently this functionality, but we are working on [central monitoring](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/3422), which will solve exactly this issue. The implementation model will follow the one used by Logstash, which has already released their [central monitoring feature](https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-5-2-0-released). Please note that parts of this monitoring functionality will be non-open-source, but all of it will be free as part of X-pack basic.

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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 2, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-if-filebeat-instances-are-alive-or-not-and-display-it-in-a-kibana-dashboard/73660/3 "2017-03-02T13:17:30Z")

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