# Monitor Filebeat's Uptime
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-filebeats-uptime/292480
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 20, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-filebeats-uptime/292480 "2021-12-20T15:46:20Z")
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### Author:  [@6igwig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6igwig)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-filebeats-uptime/292480/1 "2021-12-20T15:46:20Z")
Can Heartbeat be configured to monitor a filebeat instance and alert when that beat goes down?
Is there another way to determine when a beat is not running when it should be?
During version upgrades sometime a beat will fail to restart, how can we alert when that happens?
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### Author:  [@AquaX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AquaX)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-filebeats-uptime/292480/2 "2021-12-21T15:26:38Z")
Hearbeat is designed to inspect various endpoints (http, icmp, tcp, etc..)
and Filebeat does not spawn any listeners.
However, there is lots of internal monitoring available for filebeat.
> **[Monitor Filebeat | Filebeat Reference \[7.16\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/monitoring.html)**
If you set this up you can then create alerts in Kibana to let you know if any data does not appear for a period of time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-filebeats-uptime/292480/3 "2022-01-18T17:26:57Z")
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