plexbeat

Plexbeat

Welcome to Plexbeat.

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/github.com/pyro2927

Getting Started with Plexbeat

Requirements

• Golang 1.7

Init Project

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

make setup

It will create a clean git history for each major step. Note that you can always rewrite the history if you wish before pushing your changes.

To push Plexbeat in the git repository, run the following commands:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/pyro2927/plexbeat
git push origin master

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

Build

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

make

Run

To run Plexbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

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

Test

To test Plexbeat, 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/

Update

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/plexbeat.template.json and etc/plexbeat.asciidoc

make update

Cleanup

To clean Plexbeat source code, run the following commands:

make fmt
make simplify

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

make clean

Clone

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

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/pyro2927
cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/pyro2927
git clone https://github.com/pyro2927/plexbeat

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

Packaging

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.