- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting Started With Filebeat
- Step 1: Install Filebeat
- Step 2: Configure Filebeat
- Step 3: Configure Filebeat to use Logstash
- Step 4: Load the index template in Elasticsearch
- Step 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
- Step 6: Start Filebeat
- Step 7: View the sample Kibana dashboards
- Quick start: modules for common log formats
- Repositories for APT and YUM
- Setting up and running Filebeat
- Upgrading Filebeat
- How Filebeat works
- Configuring Filebeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Configure inputs
- Manage multiline messages
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Load balance the output hosts
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Apache2 fields
- Auditd fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- elasticsearch fields
- haproxy fields
- Host fields
- Icinga fields
- IIS fields
- Kafka fields
- kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Log file content fields
- logstash fields
- mongodb fields
- MySQL fields
- Nginx fields
- Osquery fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Redis fields
- System fields
- Traefik fields
- Monitoring Filebeat
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating from Logstash Forwarder to Filebeat
- Contributing to Beats
Beat fields
editBeat fields
editContains common beat fields available in all event types.
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beat.name -
The name of the Beat sending the log messages. If the Beat name is set in the configuration file, then that value is used. If it is not set, the hostname is used. To set the Beat name, use the
nameoption in the configuration file. -
beat.hostname -
The hostname as returned by the operating system on which the Beat is running.
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beat.timezone -
The timezone as returned by the operating system on which the Beat is running.
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beat.version -
The version of the beat that generated this event.
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@timestamp -
type: date
example: August 26th 2016, 12:35:53.332
format: date
required: True
The timestamp when the event log record was generated.
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tags -
Arbitrary tags that can be set per Beat and per transaction type.
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fields -
type: object
Contains user configurable fields.
error fields
editError fields containing additional info in case of errors.
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error.message -
type: text
Error message.
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error.code -
type: long
Error code.
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error.type -
type: keyword
Error type.
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