This is an example of how to make httpbeat work with Kibana 5.X.

Related issues:

christiangalsterer/httpbeat#25 and elastic/kibana#1084

The main change is replacing the nested fields in httpbeat.template.json to object in the original httpbeat.template.json file and then tell httpbeat to use it.

First, configure your endpoints in the httpbeat.yml

Then, build the image:

$ sudo docker build -t myhttppuller .

Finally, run it.

$ sudo docker run myhttppuller

If you are planning to use httpbeat to pull metrics, you may want to add the following to the dynamic_templates array inside httpbeat.template.json to tell elasticsearch to use double for all number fields instead of trying to dynamically assign the type long to fields that come as 0s for the first time.

{
  "long_as_double": {
    "mapping": {
      "type": "double"
    },
    "match_mapping_type": "long"
  }
}