---
title: Thrift-RPC fields
description: Thrift-RPC specific event fields. 
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/packetbeat/exported-fields-thrift
products:
  - Beats
  - Packetbeat
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Thrift-RPC fields
Thrift-RPC specific event fields.
<definitions>
  <definition term="thrift.params">
    The RPC method call parameters in a human readable format. If the IDL files are available, the parameters use names whenever possible. Otherwise, the IDs from the message are used.
  </definition>
  <definition term="thrift.service">
    The name of the Thrift-RPC service as defined in the IDL files.
  </definition>
  <definition term="thrift.return_value">
    The value returned by the Thrift-RPC call. This is encoded in a human readable format.
  </definition>
  <definition term="thrift.exceptions">
    If the call resulted in exceptions, this field contains the exceptions in a human readable format.
  </definition>
</definitions>