From 410e96108a216ec4a429966d23e1f1be78cee87f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Phillips Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:23:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update external.html.md --- website/source/docs/guides/external.html.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/guides/external.html.md b/website/source/docs/guides/external.html.md index fc7be7b69e..1238a300c2 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/guides/external.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/guides/external.html.md @@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ description: |- Very few infrastructures are entirely self-contained. Most rely on a multitude of external service providers. Consul supports this by allowing for the definition -of external services, services that are not provided by a local node. +of external services, services that are not provided by a local node. There's also a +companion project called [Consul ESM](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-esm) which +is a daemon that functions as an external service monitor that can help run health +checks for external services. Most services are registered in Consul through the use of a [service definition](/docs/agent/services.html). However, this approach registers