# New / Breaking Browser Heartbeat Config Syntax in 7.12
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-breaking-browser-heartbeat-config-syntax-in-7-12/268118
**Category:** Synthetics
**Created:** [March 23, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-breaking-browser-heartbeat-config-syntax-in-7-12/268118 "2021-03-23T16:14:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-breaking-browser-heartbeat-config-syntax-in-7-12/268118/1 "2021-03-23T16:14:54Z")
To our synthetics / browser monitor users, with the release of 7.12 today you'll notice a new, improved syntax for specifying browser monitors. Please see our [updated docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/synthetics-quickstart.html) for more info.
Here's a sample of the new config
```auto
heartbeat.monitors:
- type: browser
id: my-monitor
name: My Monitor
schedule: "@every 1m"
source:
inline:
script: |-
step("load homepage", async () => {
await page.goto('https://www.elastic.co');
});
step("hover over products menu", async () => {
await page.hover('css=[data-nav-item=products]');
});
- name: Todos
id: todos
type: browser
schedule: "@every 1m"
source:
local:
path: "/opt/todos"
```
The gist of it is, that we got rid of the `heartbeat.synthetic_suites` top level config, and combined that functionality into the `browser` monitor type. This yields a more consistent syntax. It's a breaking change for existing configs.
Additionally, we changed the structure of the `browser` type config, to include a notion of `source`. The idea here is we now have two types of source `inline` and `local`, and are planning to add a third one for remote zips, which this syntax now lets us do. See [[Heartbeat] Zip URL Support by andrewvc · Pull Request #24714 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/24714) to track remote zip support, which can be used in conjunction with a git repo that hosts zips (like github) to let you deploy new synthetic tests by simply pushing a new change to git.
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-breaking-browser-heartbeat-config-syntax-in-7-12/268118/2 "2021-03-23T16:15:07Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-breaking-browser-heartbeat-config-syntax-in-7-12/268118/3 "2021-04-16T16:15:14Z")
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