Process Monitoring using Topbeat

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Hi,

Can somebody throw some light on how to do process monitoring using topbeat and show it on dashboard highlighting the processes which are not running.

Thank you!
Sam

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Topbeat has been replaced with Metricbeat. You can follow the getting started guide for Metricbeat to get up and running with sample dashboards showing data in Kibana.

I don't understand what you mean by highlighting processes that are not running? Do you mean you have a list of processes that you expect to be running and want to know when they are not present in the events being produced by Metricbeat?

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Hello Andrew,

Thanks for suggesting on Metricbeat.

Yes, I have a list of critical processes that I want to be always running and would like to show the status on the dashboards. When the process are not running I would like to send an email notification and update dashboard with a red(failed status) on the dashboard.

Any thoughts are really appreciated?

Thanks,
Sam

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I think you could use watcher for this and define a count query for the processes you want to have there. Query for the last 5 minutes and if there are no events for these processes, send and alert. This should work (didn't test).

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Thank you!

Can you point me to some similar documentation please?

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Alerting (formerly Watcher) is part of the X-Pack. You can find more info and docs (with some examples) here:

https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/alerting

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/watcher-getting-started.html

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