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labels: Stage-Beta

description: Host status heartbeat

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Introduction

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This module integrates with mod\_host\_status\_check to provide heartbeats at regular intervals.

The only time you will generally want this, is if you are using mod\_component\_client to run Prosody as

an external component of another Prosody server that has mod\_host\_status\_check loaded and waiting for

heartbeats.

Alternatively you can run this on the same Prosody host as mod\_http\_status\_check and it will simply

update a variable periodically to indicate that Prosody and timers are functional.

Configuration

=============

The following configuration options are supported:

```{.lua}

-- The number of seconds to wait between sending heartbeats

status_check_heartbeat_interval = 5

-- Set this to "remote" (the default) if you are using mod_component_client

-- and you want to send a heartbeat to a remote server. Otherwise

-- set it to "local" to send to mod_host_status_check on the same server.

status_check_heartbeat_mode = "remote"

```

Compatibility

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Works with Prosody 0.9.x and later.