# MetricBeat HTTP module Return Code **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [November 27, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732 "2019-11-27T17:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/1 "2019-11-27T17:00:44Z")
Good morning, I want to call an API that will run a query, but only want to know the return code of the request, not the actual returned data. This is to monitor that the API is up and running. I have the following http.yml configuration: ```auto - module: http metricsets: - json period: 10s hosts: ["https://urlofservice"] namespace: "json_namespace" path: "pathtoAPIendpoint" ssl.verification_mode: none method: "GET" headers: API_KEY: "keyfor authentication" json.is_array: true ``` Since it returns data, I get the following error: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type common.MapStr How do I configure http.yml to just return the Return Code please? OR how do I get it to parse the return data, at which point Kibana will show me the return code? Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/2 "2019-11-27T20:30:23Z")
Doing some research (unfortunately, I am not a developer, so all of this is new to me), it looks like the returned values are numbers, and cannot be converted to strings, is that it? In addition to the questions above, is there a way to get around this conversion issue? ---
**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/3 "2019-12-02T23:25:14Z")
I see http module returns `http.response.code` which is a string. This requires `response.enabled` to be configured to true: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-http-json.html#\_response\_enabled](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-http-json.html#_response_enabled) Is that what you are looking for? ---
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/4 "2019-12-03T19:49:58Z")
Hello Kaiyan, Thank you very much for your response. I think that this gets me a step closer to what I need. However, I run into 2 issues when I include the request.enabled to true. The first is that for one call, the returned value is single number. Apparently, the module expects a string, as it gives me a message stating that: "json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type common.MapStr"... How do I get around that? The second is for a second call, which returns an array for strings, like this: [ "K-RFIX-20GB-70cm-8W", "K-RFIX-40GB-70cm-16W", "K-RMOB-40GB-70cm-8W", "K-RMOB-20GB-70cm-16W", "K-GMAR-40GB-70cm-16W", "K-RMAR-80GB-70cm-16W", "K-P3Mo-10GB-70cm-8W" ] Then the module returns the error: json: cannot unmarshal array into Go value of type common.MapStr, even though I set json.is\_array: true. What am I doing wrong? Thank you so much for your help! ---
**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/5 "2019-12-03T19:54:19Z")
Could you copy paste the log messages from Metricbeat here please? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/6 "2019-12-03T20:44:44Z")
Hello Kaiyan, Unfortunately, the log under /var/log/metricbeat does not get updated, ever since I installed it. I did set the directory and log files to 777. Maybe the log are somewhere else? I was reading about the adding processors to convert the output from one format to another. Would that work? Something like this: ```auto processors: - convert: fields: - {from: "src_port", to: "source.port", type: "integer"} ignore_missing: true fail_on_error: false ``` I guess that I would need to know what the field name would be. Would you know what the field name that the HTTP module uses to store the returned data? Do you think that this would work? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/7 "2019-12-03T22:33:41Z")
I guess that I would need the from and to names of the fields, if that is indeed the way to go. Thanks again, Kaiyan! ---
**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/8 "2019-12-04T00:53:51Z")
👍 For logs, I think that is the default path hmmm But if you are having issues seeing metricbeat logs, please give [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-logging.html#configuration-logging](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-logging.html#configuration-logging) a try to setup logging in metricbeat.yml. Hopefully that will help! ---
**Author:** ![RunningSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/0ea827/32.png) [@RunningSmurf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RunningSmurf)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/9 "2019-12-05T14:16:10Z")
Thank you, Kaiyan, I was able to get logs going with this... This is what the log file returns... I put xxxx and yyyy for values for our host server and target http url - I hope that it provides enough information. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011template/load.go:88#011Template metricbeat-7.4.2 already exists and will not be overwritten. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011template/load.go:88#011Template metricbeat-7.4.2 already exists and will not be overwritten. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011[index-management]#011idxmgmt/std.go:289#011Loaded index template. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011[index-management]#011idxmgmt/std.go:289#011Loaded index template. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:761#011GET [http://localhost:9200/\_alias/metricbeat-7.4.2](http://localhost:9200/_alias/metricbeat-7.4.2) Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:761#011GET [http://localhost:9200/\_alias/metricbeat-7.4.2](http://localhost:9200/_alias/metricbeat-7.4.2) Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011[index-management]#011idxmgmt/std.go:300#011Write alias successfully generated. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011INFO#011[index-management]#011idxmgmt/std.go:300#011Write alias successfully generated. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:761#011GET [http://localhost:9200/](http://localhost:9200/) Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.778Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:761#011GET [http://localhost:9200/](http://localhost:9200/) Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.779Z#011INFO#011pipeline/output.go:105#011Connection to backoff(elasticsearch([http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200))) established Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.779Z#011INFO#011pipeline/output.go:105#011Connection to backoff(elasticsearch([http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200))) established Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:347#011PublishEvents: 1 events have been published to elasticsearch in 5.116281ms. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:347#011PublishEvents: 1 events have been published to elasticsearch in 5.116281ms. Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:160#011ackloop: receive ack [0: 0, 1] Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:160#011ackloop: receive ack [0: 0, 1] Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/eventloop.go:535#011broker ACK events: count=1, start-seq=1, end-seq=1 Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/eventloop.go:535#011broker ACK events: count=1, start-seq=1, end-seq=1 Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:128#011ackloop: return ack to broker loop:1 Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:131#011ackloop: done send ack Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:128#011ackloop: return ack to broker loop:1 Dec 5 14:06:59 : 2019-12-05T14:06:59.784Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:131#011ackloop: done send ack Dec 5 14:07:08 : 2019-12-05T14:07:08.763Z#011INFO#011module/wrapper.go:252#011Error fetching data for metricset http.json: json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type common.MapStr Dec 5 14:07:08 : 2019-12-05T14:07:08.763Z#011INFO#011module/wrapper.go:252#011Error fetching data for metricset http.json: json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type common.MapStr Dec 5 14:07:08 : 2019-12-05T14:07:08.764Z#011DEBUG#011[processors]#011processing/processors.go:183#011Publish event: { Dec 5 14:07:08 : 2019-12-05T14:07:08.764Z#011DEBUG#011[processors]#011processing/processors.go:183#011Publish event: { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "@timestamp": "2019-12-05T14:07:08.719Z", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "@timestamp": "2019-12-05T14:07:08.719Z", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "@metadata": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "@metadata": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "beat": "metricbeat", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "beat": "metricbeat", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "\_doc", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "\_doc", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4.2" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4.2" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "host": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "host": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "xxxxx", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "xxxxx", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "os": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "os": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "family": "redhat", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "family": "redhat", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "kernel": "3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86\_64", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "kernel": "3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86\_64", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "codename": "Maipo", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "platform": "rhel", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "codename": "Maipo", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "platform": "rhel", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4 (Maipo)" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4 (Maipo)" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "id": "951ca9e4d2d941c9b88f44901d916ff9", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "id": "951ca9e4d2d941c9b88f44901d916ff9", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "containerized": false, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "containerized": false, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "hostname": "xxxxx", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "hostname": "xxxxx", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "architecture": "x86\_64" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "event": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "module": "http", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "duration": 44451446, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "dataset": "http.json" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "architecture": "x86\_64" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "event": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "module": "http", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "duration": 44451446, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "dataset": "http.json" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "metricset": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "period": 10000, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "metricset": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "period": 10000, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "json" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "name": "json" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "service": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "service": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "address": "[ipmanagerit.yyyyy.com](http://ipmanagerit.yyyyy.com)", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "http" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "address": "[ipmanagerit.yyyyy.com](http://ipmanagerit.yyyyy.com)", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "http" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "error": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "message": "json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type common.MapStr" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "fields": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "app\_id": "test\_gb" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "error": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "message": "json: cannot unmarshal number into Go value of type common.MapStr" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "fields": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "app\_id": "test\_gb" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "agent": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "ephemeral\_id": "578e1ef1-a6fb-4711-b3e2-595b31d711f3", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "hostname": "[atldev-psgmon.nadev.intsatdev.com](http://atldev-psgmon.nadev.intsatdev.com)", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "agent": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "ephemeral\_id": "578e1ef1-a6fb-4711-b3e2-595b31d711f3", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "hostname": "xxxxxx", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "id": "6a26f89a-3e1d-44f7-bae6-c5e147cfbfb9", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4.2", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "metricbeat" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "id": "6a26f89a-3e1d-44f7-bae6-c5e147cfbfb9", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "7.4.2", Dec 5 14:07:08 : "type": "metricbeat" Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : }, Dec 5 14:07:08 : "ecs": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "ecs": { Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "1.1.0" Dec 5 14:07:08 : "version": "1.1.0" Dec 5 14:07:08 : } Dec 5 14:07:08 : } Dec 5 14:07:08 : } Dec 5 14:07:08 : } Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:347#011PublishEvents: 1 events have been published to elasticsearch in 6.194876ms. Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[elasticsearch]#011elasticsearch/client.go:347#011PublishEvents: 1 events have been published to elasticsearch in 6.194876ms. Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:160#011ackloop: receive ack [1: 0, 1] Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:160#011ackloop: receive ack [1: 0, 1] Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/eventloop.go:535#011broker ACK events: count=1, start-seq=2, end-seq=2 Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/eventloop.go:535#011broker ACK events: count=1, start-seq=2, end-seq=2 Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:128#011ackloop: return ack to broker loop:1 Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:128#011ackloop: return ack to broker loop:1 Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:131#011ackloop: done send ack Dec 5 14:07:09 : 2019-12-05T14:07:09.770Z#011DEBUG#011[publisher]#011memqueue/ackloop.go:131#011ackloop: done send ack Dec 5 14:07:15 atldev-psgmon sudo: psgmon : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/etc/metricbeat ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl stop metricbeat Dec 5 14:07:15 atldev-psgmon polkitd[910]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:9784:196377828 (system bus name :1.8254 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en\_US.UTF-8) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-http-module-return-code/209732/10 "2020-01-02T14:16:14Z")
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