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Elasticsearch Synthetics browser monitoring in kubernetes or containers

Posted on by jlim0930

Elastic’s Synthetics is still a beat feature but lately many are trying to use this but is having a hard time configuring it in containers and in kubernetes. I’ve started a simple stack deployment using my deploy-elastick8s.sh script and added tested this out. create the stack https://www.gooksu.com/2022/09/new-elastic-kubernetes-script-deploy-elastick8s-sh/ configure heartbeat followed the documents from https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html and used https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/8.7/deploy/kubernetes/heartbeat-kubernetes.yaml to create heartbeats. added browser monitoring using https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/8.7/monitor-browser-options.html ran into some issues since browser monitoring can not be ran with root user need to change so that heartbeat can be ran as heartbeat user found https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/29465#issuecomment-1024975901 to add the securityContext for spec and… Continue Reading →

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How to run setup for various beats(filebeat, metricbeat, & more) in kubernetes to load dashboards and more

Posted on by jlim0930

Whenever you install beats or update beats its best if you run the setup so that the setup will update your index templates, ILM, visualizations, etc. I found that its always best before installing or upgrading to use a seed host to just run the setup before deploying or updating across your environment and to turn off template updates and dashboard loading on the beats locally so that your elasticsearch cluster is not flooded. In a baremetal environment this is easy to do but in docker and in kubernetes it gets a bit difficult. Sure you can setup a initContainer… Continue Reading →