Monitoring several url and setting schedule

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Hello,
I use heartbeat module to monitor http responses, with Elastic v7.17.6.
I have to monitor several url.
Do I have to use this syntax :

heartbeat.monitors:
- type: http
  urls: ["http://url1", "http://url2", "http://url3" ]

or this one ?

heartbeat.monitors:
- type: http
    urls:
        - "http://url1"
        - "http://url2"
        - "http://url3"

And about the schedule, to test every 5 minutes, can I use : (I couldn't find it in the doc)

- type: http
  schedule: '@every 5m'

Or with the cron syntax, is it: ?

 - type: http
   schedule: '* */5 * * * *'

?
Thank you for your suggestions

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Hi ppic,

Referring to this old blog post for guidance, , I think you can specify the urls in either format you have provided. The docs make reference to a list of urls, so if you are unsure or want to play safe go with option 1 of the list-based syntax over multiple lines.

On the schedule side, it accepts cron syntax which can be either of the formats you have suggested as per the documentation.

Hope that helps!

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Hi Carly,

Thank you for your advice, it helps !
I was used to the crontab like in unix systems, with 5 fields for the period, so I was wondering...
I will try it monday and tell you.
Have a good we.

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Hi Carly,

It works as intended. Thanks.
I have now a new pb : it stopped pinging two days ago, while the windows service continued to work.
I don't see the pb in the log files.
I restarted the service and now it pings as expected.
I will close this topic and post a new one for this pb.

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