Welcome to iobeat.

This beat collects IO statistics from /proc/diskstats on Linux and ships them to your configured collectors.

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/github.com/devopsmakers

• Golang 1.7

To get running with Iobeat and also install the dependencies, run the following command:

make setup 

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

To build the binary for iobeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name iobeat.

make 

To run iobeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./iobeat -c iobeat.yml -e -d "*" 

To test iobeat, run the following command:

make testsuite 

alternatively:

make unit-tests make system-tests make integration-tests make coverage-report 

The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/

Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields which is automatically generated based on etc/fields.yml. To generate etc/iobeat.template.json and etc/iobeat.asciidoc

make update 

To clean iobeat source code, run the following commands:

make fmt make simplify 

To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:

make clean 

To clone iobeat from the git repository, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/devopsmakers cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/devopsmakers git clone https://github.com/devopsmakers/iobeat 

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

The beat frameworks provides tools to crosscompile and package your beat for different platforms. This requires docker and vendoring as described above. To build packages of your beat, run the following command:

make package 

This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The hole process to finish can take several minutes.