Hello,
i'm using metricbeat / elasticsearch / kibana.
My goal is to know if the server is UP : i'm planning to do a request (HEAD request will be perfect) then process the headers (and filtering them maybe in logstash?) and check f the received response status is 200 ==> so that means server is UP.
I'm facing some issues with metricbeat configuration file.
The HTTP module is enabled and has this conf :
- module: http
metricsets:
- json
period: 10s
hosts: ["localhost:3000"]
namespace: "json_namespace"
path: "/"
method: "HEAD"
response.enabled: true
using this conf => i got an error.message : unexpected end of JSON input
I think it's because HEAD returns an empty body and parsing an empty body gave this error.
I tried using an other conf :
- module: http
metricsets:
- json
period: 10s
hosts: ["localhost:3000"]
namespace: "json_namespace"
path: "/"
body: ""
method: "GET"
response.enabled: true
I got this error : invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value
I think it's because < is a starting of an html page ! and that could not be parsed in json!
I'm stuck here ! I ll be glad if you can help me figure it out !
Thank you very much!