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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon elastic

Heartbeat: add support for DNS check

Open nugroho-exp opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Describe the enhancement:

Currently Heartbeat only supports HTTP, TCP and ICMP. It would be great if Heartbeat can support DNS check.

See similar implementation by other solutions:

  • https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/synthetic-monitoring/checks/#dns
  • https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/dns_check/

Describe a specific use case for the enhancement or feature:

We have several DNS servers that we need to monitor to make sure it returns expected result. It would be nice to use heartbeat (elastic agent) to monitor those servers and display it in Uptime.

nugroho-exp avatar Mar 03 '22 15:03 nugroho-exp

Just an FYI, this post: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-tcp-dns-query/296180/2?u=benb196 examples how you currently monitor DNS via Heartbeat TCP check. It isn't very direct implementation, but works well from using it in the real world.

BenB196 avatar Mar 04 '22 00:03 BenB196

@BenB196 Thank you for the tips.

However we use elastic agent and processor is not supported yet and also it supports only reverse lookup and it does not support other record type such as A, TXT that we also want to check.

It would be great to have an easy DNS check setup using Fleet and use Kibana alerting to create an alert if DNS server does not return expected result.

nugroho-exp avatar Mar 11 '22 15:03 nugroho-exp

Pinging @elastic/uptime (Team:Uptime)

elasticmachine avatar Mar 15 '22 14:03 elasticmachine

Hi! We just realized that we haven't looked into this issue in a while. We're sorry!

We're labeling this issue as Stale to make it hit our filters and make sure we get back to it as soon as possible. In the meantime, it'd be extremely helpful if you could take a look at it as well and confirm its relevance. A simple comment with a nice emoji will be enough :+1. Thank you for your contribution!

botelastic[bot] avatar Mar 15 '23 14:03 botelastic[bot]

A DNS check is definitely needed for this type of service. Please add the functionality.

chais0n avatar Apr 28 '23 13:04 chais0n

Hi! We just realized that we haven't looked into this issue in a while. We're sorry!

We're labeling this issue as Stale to make it hit our filters and make sure we get back to it as soon as possible. In the meantime, it'd be extremely helpful if you could take a look at it as well and confirm its relevance. A simple comment with a nice emoji will be enough :+1. Thank you for your contribution!

botelastic[bot] avatar Apr 27 '24 14:04 botelastic[bot]