Beats Heartbeat collaboration

[wallies]

It would seem there is an official experimental beat being worked on here https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/heartbeat that looks very similiar to what pingbeat is doing. Have you looked at this beat and if so what are your thought on it? I love using pingbeat, but if there is an official beat that does something similiar I will likely choice that option.

[joshuar]

Hi @wallies, you could say that Heartbeat draws inspiration from Pingbeat and vice versa ;)

Heartbeat does a lot of what I wanted to do with Pingbeat eventually (i.e., other checks besides ICMP) Pingbeat might do some things Heartbeat won't do, such as GeoIP lookups and such. Also, I'm not sure whether Heartbeat is designed to handle lot of checks, whereas I'm trying to make Pingbeat be able to do a mass number of checks efficiently. That's not to say that Heartbeat won't eventually do more than Pingbeat and vice-versa.

At the moment, Pingbeat just does pings. A lot of them at once. Heartbeat can perform more targeted uptime and connectivity checks. It really depends on what you want to do to which one you use.