topbeat

Topbeat is the Beat used for server monitoring. It is a lightweight agent that installed on your servers, reads periodically system wide and per process CPU and memory statistics and indexes them in Elasticsearch.

Exported fields

There are two types of documents exported:

• type: system for system wide statistics
• type: proc for per process statistics. One per process is generated.

{
  "_index": "topbeat-2015.08.27",
  "_type": "system",
  "_id": "AU9uLFz1sHueqcsbvZmh",
  "_source": {
    "count": 1,
    "cpu": {
      "user": 9129745,
      "user_p": 85.11,
      "nice": 0,
      "system": 1878287,
      "system_p": 14.64,
      "idle": 17645082,
      "iowait": 0,
      "irq": 0,
      "softirq": 0,
      "steal": 0
    },
    "load": {
      "load1": 6.52392578125,
      "load5": 6.5341796875,
      "load15": 7.10791015625
    },
    "mem": {
      "total": 16777216,
      "used": 11466136,
      "free": 5311080,
      "used_p": 68.34,
      "actual_used": 11064836,
      "actual_free": 5712380
    },
    "shipper": "mar.localdomain",
    "swap": {
      "total": 2147483648,
      "used": 931135488,
      "free": 1216348160,
      "used_p": 43.36,
      "actual_used": 0,
      "actual_free": 0
    },
    "timestamp": "2015-08-27T08:00:45.044Z",
    "type": "system"
  }
}


{
  "_index": "topbeat-2015.08.27",
  "_type": "proc",
  "_id": "AU9uLi3MsHueqcsbve66",
  "_source": {
    "count": 1,
    "proc.cpu": {
      "user": 21149958,
      "user_p": 334.62,
      "system": 272950,
      "total": 21422908,
      "start_time": "22:29"
    },
    "proc.mem": {
      "size": 145164088,
      "rss": 276,
      "rss_p": 0,
      "share": 0
    },
    "proc.name": "burn",
    "proc.pid": 24090,
    "proc.ppid": 24087,
    "proc.state": "running",
    "shipper": "mar.localdomain",
    "timestamp": "2015-08-27T08:02:44.077Z",
    "type": "proc"
  }
}

Elasticsearch template

To apply topbeat template:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_template/topbeat' -d@etc/topbeat.template.json