# Synthetic Monitoring

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257829
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, heartbeat
**Created:** [December 7, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257829 "2020-12-07T10:12:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![inhinyera16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/inhinyera16/32/61625_2.png) [@inhinyera16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inhinyera16)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257829/1 "2020-12-07T10:12:14Z")

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Hi,

I've been trying to use elastic synthetic monitoring for testing.  
when i tried to validate the heartbeat.docker.yml file, it failed.  
The script is causing this. I wasnt able to run the docker image because yaml is not working.

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### Author: ![PaulB-Elastic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/paulb-elastic/32/78691_2.png) [@PaulB-Elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PaulB-Elastic)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257829/2 "2020-12-10T10:51:53Z")

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Hi @inhinyera16, is this the same as your discussion over at [Synthetic Monitoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257834)?

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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: [January 7, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/synthetic-monitoring/257829/3 "2021-01-07T12:52:03Z")

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