# Monitor multiple directories in monitors.d using heartbeat

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, beats-module, heartbeat
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053 "2023-03-20T08:43:31Z")
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### Author: ![Gaurav\_kr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Gaurav\_kr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_kr)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053/1 "2023-03-20T08:43:31Z")

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Hi All, wanted to know do we able to manager directories in monitors.d directories in heartbeat.  
I wanted to monitor some service and wanted to manage the yml file in directors i.e. each yml files should be under machine directory name.  
So if i put the dircetory in monitors.d in heartbeat i am not able to get the services monitored in uptime i used path as monitors.d/_/_.yml and also \*\*/\*.yml but no luck.

Can someone suggest do we have any other way to make this subdirectors check in monitors.d for heartbeat

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### Author: ![jkambic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jkambic/32/53306_2.png) [@jkambic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkambic)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053/2 "2023-03-22T14:12:04Z")

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Hi @Gaurav_kr, thanks for using Heartbeat!

Your use case should be covered already. I've configured Heartbeat like this:

```yaml
heartbeat.config.monitors:
  # Directory + glob pattern to search for configuration files
  path: ${path.config}/monitors.d/**/*.yml

```

And I have set up a `monitors.d` directory like this:

```bash
➜ ls -R monitors.d
nested sample.http.yml sample.icmp.yml.disabled sample.tcp.yml

monitors.d/nested:
nested.yml

```

And I'm able to run heartbeat with `./heartbeat -e` and see my monitor show up in Kibana:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/7/77327dded81d32492a4ace9c20073f818ddc5107.png)

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### Author: ![Gaurav\_kr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Gaurav\_kr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_kr)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053/3 "2023-03-25T04:10:47Z")

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Thank you @jkambic

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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: [April 22, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-multiple-directories-in-monitors-d-using-heartbeat/328053/4 "2023-04-22T06:11:33Z")

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