# heartbeat

**heartbeat** Lightweight shipper for uptime monitoring

Monitor services for their availability with active probing. Given a list of URLs, Heartbeat asks the simple question: Are you alive? Heartbeat ships this information and response time to the rest of the Elastic Stack for further analysis.

For more information about heartbeat, please visit
https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/heartbeat.

### Installation instructions

Please follow the documentation on [running heartbeat on Docker](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/running-on-docker.html).

### Where to file issues and PRs

- [Issues](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues)
- [PRs](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pulls)

### DoD Restrictions

### Where to get help

- [heartbeat Discuss Forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/tags/c/elastic-stack/beats/28/heartbeat)
- [heartbeat Documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/index.html)

### Still need help?

You can learn more about the Elastic Community and also understand how to get more help
visiting [Elastic Community](https://www.elastic.co/community).

This software is governed by the [Elastic
License](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/{{ .MajorMinor }}/licenses/ELASTIC-LICENSE.txt),
and includes the full set of [free
features](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions).

View the detailed release notes
[here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/release-notes-{{ beat_version }}.html).
