# Monitor packet loss with Heartbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [August 3, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294 "2021-08-03T09:49:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bilanda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Bilanda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bilanda)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294/1 "2021-08-03T09:49:58Z")

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Hello,  
I'm currently testing heartbeat at company level in order to replace Smokeping.  
Is there any way to monitor packet loss with heartbeat, like Smokeping does ?  
It's a much needed feature for us, but didn't find the way to do it with Heartbeat at this moment.  
Regards

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294/2 "2021-08-03T18:59:25Z")

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ICMP pings will fail in the event of packet loss, so you can use their failure ratio to determine the amount of packet loss you have.

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**Author:** ![Bilanda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@Bilanda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bilanda)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294/3 "2021-08-04T13:06:25Z")

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Thanks a lot for your reply. Indeed that sounds good. Made a custom panel on grafana for getting the ratio, that makes the job.  
Regards

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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:** [September 1, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-packet-loss-with-heartbeat/280294/4 "2021-09-01T15:07:11Z")

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