Elasticsearch Synthetics browser monitoring in kubernetes or containers
Elastic’s Synthetics is still a beat feature but lately many are trying to use this but is having a hard time configuring it in containers and in kubernetes. I’ve started a simple stack deployment using my deploy-elastick8s.sh script and added tested this out. create the stack https://www.gooksu.com/2022/09/new-elastic-kubernetes-script-deploy-elastick8s-sh/ configure heartbeat followed the documents from https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html and used https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/8.7/deploy/kubernetes/heartbeat-kubernetes.yaml to create heartbeats. added browser monitoring using https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/8.7/monitor-browser-options.html ran into some issues since browser monitoring can not be ran with root user need to change so that heartbeat can be ran as heartbeat user found https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/29465#issuecomment-1024975901 to add the securityContext for spec and… Continue Reading