# How to cross check weather my beats are running or not

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [February 6, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213 "2019-02-06T04:13:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![RamyaGowda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramyagowda/32/27440_2.png) [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/1 "2019-02-06T04:13:00Z")

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Hi team,

In an environment of monitoring 100 server using packetbeat, How do i know that all 100 beats are running fine and i data is streaming ?

Is there any configuration to be done at beats side ?

Thanks  
Ramya

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/2 "2019-02-06T04:15:23Z")

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Have you seen [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/monitoring.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/monitoring.html)?

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**Author:** ![RamyaGowda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramyagowda/32/27440_2.png) [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/3 "2019-02-06T04:25:15Z")

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@warkolm ,Thank you.  
Yeah,I have gone through this but , in production we are not using X-pack.  
If we don't use x-pack what are the ways to monitor Beats ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/4 "2019-02-06T04:26:13Z")

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You should! It's free and works really well 🙂

If you aren't using that, then you maybe you can use metricbeat to monitor the packetbeat service.

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**Author:** ![RamyaGowda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramyagowda/32/27440_2.png) [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/5 "2019-02-06T04:29:21Z")

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Thanks for your suggestions 🙂  
Could you please elaborate how Metricbeat can monitor packetbeat.and if we use metricbeat/packetbeat/filebeat/heartbeat what are the ways of monitoring them.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/6 "2019-02-06T04:31:26Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-process.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-system-process.html) has info on process monitoring.

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**Author:** ![RamyaGowda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ramyagowda/32/27440_2.png) [@RamyaGowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RamyaGowda)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/7 "2019-02-06T04:44:34Z")

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Thank you for your time 🙂

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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 6, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cross-check-weather-my-beats-are-running-or-not/167213/8 "2019-03-06T06:44:49Z")

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