# Monitoring Beats if it's not running

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-beats-if-its-not-running/182625>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-beats-if-its-not-running/182625 "2019-05-24T11:11:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thibaut\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Thibaut\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibaut_M)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-beats-if-its-not-running/182625/1 "2019-05-24T11:11:15Z")

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Hi everyone,

I was wondering, is there a way to monitor if a beats service is up and running?

I saw on the monitoring part that we can see the up time but when the service is stopped i guess that the beats just disappear from the monitoring UI. Is there a way to have something like the "Active beats in Last day" but instead "Non-active beats in last Day" as follow ?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/162a44bdfacc1282cd5d1a42d245d772d939a3a6.png)

Or do we need to add something else to have this particular monitoring?

PS: cluster in 6.6

Thank you,  
Thibaut

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**Author:** ![faec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/faec/32/46988_2.png) [@faec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/faec)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-beats-if-its-not-running/182625/2 "2019-05-29T19:17:35Z")

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I don't think there's a general way to show all beats that haven't run lately, in part because there's no limit on the number or type of beats (including user-defined beats) so there's no typical set of beats that "should" be running. However, if you have specific beats you want to monitor, you could set up a visualization / dashboard that shows how recently events were received from those ones -- but it'll involve doing a specific query for the beats you want, not just a general "everything that isn't recent".

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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:** [June 26, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-beats-if-its-not-running/182625/3 "2019-06-26T21:19:21Z")

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