Beats Heartbeat collaboration

[wallies]

Beats Heartbeat collaboration

[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.