[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingabeat.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingabeat) # Icingabeat > The Beats are lightweight data shippers, written in Go, that you install on > your servers to capture all sorts of operational data (think of logs, > metrics, or network packet data). The Beats send the operational data to > Elasticsearch, either directly or via Logstash, so it can be visualized with > Kibana. Icingabeat is an [Elastic Beat](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats) that fetches data from the Icinga 2 API and sends it either directly to Elasticsearch or Logstash. ![icingabeat-checkresult-dashboard](screenshots/checkresults.png) ## Documentation Please read the documentation on [icinga.com/docs/icingabeat/latest](https://www.icinga.com/docs/icingabeat/latest/) for more information ## Development ### Building and running manually #### Requirements * [Golang](https://golang.org/dl/) 1.9 #### Clone To clone Icingabeat from the git repository, run the following commands: ```shell mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga git clone https://github.com/icinga/icingabeat ``` For further development check out the [beat developer guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/new-beat.html). #### Build Ensure that this folder is at the following location: `${GOPATH}/github.com/icinga` To build the binary for Icingabeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name icingabeat. ```shell make ``` #### Run To run Icingabeat with debugging output enabled, run: ```shell ./icingabeat -c icingabeat.yml -e -d "*" ``` #### Test To test Icingabeat, run the following command: ```shell make testsuite ``` alternatively: ```shell 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 ```shell make update ``` #### Cleanup To clean Icingabeat source code, run the following commands: ```shell make fmt make simplify ``` To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run: ```shell make clean ``` ### 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: ```shell make package ``` This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The whole process can take several minutes to finish. To disable snapshot packages or build specific packages, set the following environment variables: ```shell export SNAPSHOT=false export TARGETS="\"linux/amd64 linux/386\"" export PACKAGES=icingabeat/deb make package ``` #### Dashboards To be able to export dashboards with all their dependencies (visualizations and searches) you have to name the dashboard with a `icingabeat-` prefix. Export dashboards: ```shell export ES_URL=http://127.0.0.1:9200 make export-dashboards ``` After exporting, dashboards can be packaged: ```shell export SNAPSHOT=false make package-dashboards ```