Web Service module in Metricbeat

[ppf2]

Similar to #619, it can be useful to have a beat similar to the metrics beat, but support custom web services as the source.

[ruflin]

Beats are in general target to run as close to the source as possible, means normally on the host machine. I assume you are talking here about remote web services like Google API, Twitter or others to receive a status. I'm not sure if Logstash Plugins are actually better target for such use cases.

[ppf2]

Also for the case where there are custom web services returning metrics running internally on web servers.

[ruflin]

Monitoring your own web services is definitively an interesting use case. As the data fetched and the structure of the data is very app specific, it sounds like a good use case to use metricbeat as a library and to implement its own module / metricset on top of it. This is normally only a few lines of code.

[ruflin]

Closing this as I think the http module we have now covers this use case.