Welcome to DDFbeat.

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

• Golang 1.7

To get running with DDFbeat 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 DDFbeat in the git repository, run the following commands:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/connexta/ddfbeat
git push origin master

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

This beat can be configured using environment variables. They are as follows:

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

make

To run DDFbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

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

To test DDFbeat, 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 DDFbeat source code, run the following command:

make fmt

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

make clean

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

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/connexta/ddfbeat
git clone https://github.com/connexta/ddfbeat ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/connexta/ddfbeat

For further development, check out the beat developer guide.

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 release

This will fetch and create all images required for the build process. The whole process to finish can take several minutes.