Step 5: Set up assets | Observability Guide [7.9]

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Step 5: Set up assetsedit

Heartbeat comes with predefined assets for parsing, indexing, and visualizing your data. To load these assets:

Make sure the user specified in heartbeat.yml is authorized to set up Heartbeat.
From the installation directory, run:
```
heartbeat setup -e
```
```
heartbeat setup -e
```
```
./heartbeat setup -e
```
```
heartbeat setup -e
```
```
./heartbeat setup -e
```
```
PS > .\heartbeat.exe setup -e
```
-e is optional and sends output to standard error instead of the configured log output.

This step loads the recommended index template for writing to Elasticsearch. It does not install Heartbeat dashboards. Heartbeat dashboards and installation steps are available in the uptime-contrib GitHub repository.

A connection to Elasticsearch (or Elasticsearch Service) is required to set up the initial environment. If you’re using a different output, such as Logstash, see Load the index template manually.

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