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# Icingabeat
Welcome to Icingabeat.
Ensure that this folder is at the following location:
`${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga`
## Getting Started with Icingabeat
### Requirements
* [Golang](https://golang.org/dl/) 1.7
### Init Project
To get running with Icingabeat and also install the
dependencies, run the following command:
```
make setup
```
It will create a clean git history for each major step. Note that you can always rewrite the history if you wish before pushing your changes.
To push Icingabeat in the git repository, run the following commands:
```
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/icinga/icingabeat
git push origin master
```
For further development, check out the [beat developer guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/new-beat.html).
### Build
To build the binary for Icingabeat run the command below. This will generate a binary
in the same directory with the name icingabeat.
```
make
```
### Run
To run Icingabeat with debugging output enabled, run:
```
./icingabeat -c icingabeat.yml -e -d "*"
```
### Test
To test Icingabeat, run the following command:
```
make testsuite
```
alternatively:
```
make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report
```
The test coverage is reported in the folder `./build/coverage/`
### Update
Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields
which is automatically generated based on `etc/fields.yml`.
To generate etc/icingabeat.template.json and etc/icingabeat.asciidoc
```
make update
```
### Cleanup
To clean Icingabeat source code, run the following commands:
```
make fmt
make simplify
```
To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:
```
make clean
```
### Clone
To clone Icingabeat from the git repository, run the following commands:
```
mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga
cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga
git clone https://github.com/icinga/icingabeat
```
For further development, check out the [beat developer guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/new-beat.html).
## Packaging
The beat frameworks provides tools to crosscompile and package your beat for different platforms. This requires [docker](https://www.docker.com/) and vendoring as described above. To build packages of your beat, run the following command:
```
make package
```
This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The hole process to finish can take several minutes.