Run Heartbeat on Dockeredit
Docker images for Heartbeat are available from the Elastic Docker registry. The base image is centos:7.
A list of all published Docker images and tags is available at www.docker.elastic.co.
These images are free to use under the Elastic license. They contain open source and free commercial features and access to paid commercial features. Start a 30-day trial to try out all of the paid commercial features. See the Subscriptions page for information about Elastic license levels.
Pull the imageedit
Obtaining Heartbeat for Docker is as simple as issuing a docker pull
command
against the Elastic Docker registry.
However, version 8.9.0 of Heartbeat has not yet been released, so no Docker image is currently available for this version.
Optional: Verify the imageedit
You can use the Cosign application to verify the Heartbeat Docker image signature.
Version 8.9.0 of Heartbeat has not yet been released, so no Docker image is currently available for this version.
Run the Heartbeat setupedit
Running Heartbeat with the setup command will create the index pattern and load visualizations and machine learning jobs. Run this command:
docker run \ --cap-add=NET_RAW \ docker.elastic.co/beats/heartbeat:8.9.0 \ setup -E setup.kibana.host=kibana:5601 \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=["elasticsearch:9200"]
Substitute your Kibana and Elasticsearch hosts and ports. |
|
If you are using the hosted Elasticsearch Service in Elastic Cloud, replace
the |
-E cloud.id=<Cloud ID from Elasticsearch Service> \ -E cloud.auth=elastic:<elastic password>
Configure Heartbeat on Dockeredit
The Docker image provides several methods for configuring Heartbeat. The conventional approach is to provide a configuration file via a volume mount, but it’s also possible to create a custom image with your configuration included.
Example configuration fileedit
Download this example configuration file as a starting point:
curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/master/deploy/docker/heartbeat.docker.yml
Volume-mounted configurationedit
One way to configure Heartbeat on Docker is to provide heartbeat.docker.yml
via a volume mount.
With docker run
, the volume mount can be specified like this.
Customize your configurationedit
The heartbeat.docker.yml
downloaded earlier should be customized for your environment. See Configure for more details. Edit the configuration file and customize it to match your environment then re-deploy your Heartbeat container.
Custom image configurationedit
It’s possible to embed your Heartbeat configuration in a custom image. Here is an example Dockerfile to achieve this:
FROM docker.elastic.co/beats/heartbeat:8.9.0 COPY --chown=root:heartbeat heartbeat.yml /usr/share/heartbeat/heartbeat.yml
Required network capabilitiesedit
Under Docker, Heartbeat runs as a non-root user, but requires some privileged
network capabilities to operate correctly. Ensure that the NET_RAW
capability is available to the container.
docker run --cap-add=NET_RAW docker.elastic.co/beats/heartbeat:8.9.0