- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Packetbeat
- Setting up and running Packetbeat
- Upgrading Packetbeat
- Configuring Packetbeat
- Set traffic capturing options
- Set up flows to monitor network traffic
- Specify which transaction protocols to monitor
- Specify which processes to monitor
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Export GeoIP Information
- 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
- YAML tips and gotchas
- HTTP Endpoint
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DHCPv4 fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
- Flow Event fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitoring Packetbeat
- Securing Packetbeat
- Visualizing Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshooting
- 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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