I wanted to get some sample data and was too lazy to use generators or to craft it by hand, so I decided to try and use ChatGPT to generate sample monitoring data.
Started with this prompt
act as an application and infracture monitoring platform synthetic data generator. All you responses need to be in a valid JSON format.
Generate CPU performance metrics for 5 servers over last 24 hours
I wanted to play a little with Grafana while having Elasticsearch as a back-end and decided to use Elastic Heartbeat as my data generator. It’s an easy, no fuss, to set up the Heartbeat itself as well as the first Heartbeat HTTP monitor, but when I saw all the available Heartbeat time metrics for the HTTP monitor I got a bit overwhelmed. So decided to to gradually progress from ICMP through TCP and finally to HTTP Heartbeat monitors and that the way this post is going to evolve as well:
Part 1 – Elasticsearch Heartbeat ICMP time metrics
Part 2 – Elasticsearch Heartbeat TCP time metrics (work in progress)
Part 3 – Elasticsearch Heartbeat HTTP time metrics (work in progress)
