Mac hostname showing as 'localhost'

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Maybe you could so a simple test with just Golang on your machine. I can't come up with a reason why beat.hostname == localhost.

macbook13:tmp akroh$ go version
go version go1.6.2 darwin/amd64
macbook13:tmp akroh$ sysctl kern.hostname
kern.hostname: macbook13.company.com
macbook13:tmp akroh$ cat main.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Println(os.Hostname())
}
macbook13:tmp akroh$ go run main.go
macbook13.company.com <nil>

As you can see on this line the publisher.hostname is being set to the value of os.Hostname().