Send email alert when filebeat cannot send out log

we have installed filebeat on aws machines around the world. Sometimes, some machines cannot send out log, is there any want to trigger an email alert when something like that happen?

I think you can research Kibana Alerting: https://www.elastic.co/what-is/kibana-alerting

I don't reckon anything dedicated or embedded together with filebeat.

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How we do is

  • maintain a list of beats which we intend to send events regularly (or are important) in beats_mandatory index and a gap for heart-beat (eg 600s)
  • Run a query, to ensure the information/heartbeat (or any type of message) has been received from that beat in the above heart-beat gap
  • count values by beat, and if it's less than 1 , alert

would look something like below

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