Company
Date Published
Author
Dov Hershkovitch
Word count
1257
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Elastic Uptime Monitoring solution, introduced in Elastic Stack 6.7, offers a comprehensive tool for tracking service uptime and response time across various network vantage points using Heartbeat, an open-source uptime monitor. This solution enables organizations to measure, report, and alert on service availability, helping operations teams manage the complexities of interconnected applications and microservices. By integrating with the Elastic Stack, Uptime Monitoring combines data from logs, metrics, and APM trace data to facilitate observability, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis. Heartbeat runs periodic checks on configured endpoints to deliver updates to Elasticsearch, which can be visualized and analyzed in Kibana, and allows for the creation of alerts using Watcher for proactive issue detection. This release marks the beginning of a broader observability initiative by Elastic, promising future enhancements for monitor management and configuration.