- Golang 1.9+
To build the binary for merakibeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name merakibeat.
make
To run merakibeat with debugging output enabled, run:
./merakibeat -c merakibeat.yml -e -d "*"
To test merakibeat, 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 fields.yml by running the following command.
make update
To clean merakibeat source code, run the following commands:
make fmt
make simplify
To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:
make clean
To clone merakibeat from the git repository, run the following commands:
mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/wwwin-github.cisco.com/DevNet/merakibeat
git clone https://wwwin-github.cisco.com/DevNet/merakibeat ${GOPATH}/src/wwwin-github.cisco.com/DevNet/merakibeat
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 whole process to finish can take several minutes.
For further development, check out the beat developer guide.