- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Auditbeat
- Breaking changes in 6.2
- Setting up and running Auditbeat
- Configuring Auditbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Reload the configuration dynamically
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Set up index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with 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
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitoring Auditbeat
- Securing Auditbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
System user dataset
editSystem user dataset
editThis functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
This is the user
dataset of the system module.
It is implemented for Linux only.
Example dashboard
editThe dataset comes with a sample dashboard:
Fields
editFor a description of each field in the dataset, see the exported fields section.
Here is an example document generated by this dataset:
{ "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z", "agent": { "hostname": "host.example.com", "name": "host.example.com" }, "event": { "action": "existing_user", "dataset": "user", "id": "11b3b49c-79a1-4983-aea9-3257a3073a71", "kind": "state", "module": "system" }, "message": "Existing user elastic (UID: 1002, Groups: elastic,docker)", "service": { "type": "system" }, "system": { "audit": { "user": { "dir": "/home/elastic", "gid": "1002", "group": [ { "gid": "1002", "name": "elastic" }, { "gid": "999", "name": "docker" } ], "name": "elastic", "password": { "last_changed": "2018-12-07T00:00:00Z", "type": "shadow_password" }, "shell": "/usr/bin/zsh", "uid": "1002", "user_information": ",,," } } }, "user": { "entity_id": "4a80efe9ab38d1bb28aaa207d03ef24a702602d0ae55cc4661946fa1d8eee6b5", "id": "1002", "name": "elastic" } }
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