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System package dataset
editSystem package 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 package
dataset of the system module.
It is implemented for Linux distributions using dpkg or rpm as their package manager, and for Homebrew on macOS (Darwin).
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_package", "dataset": "package", "id": "ed069c3f-1d30-4e17-845b-cc915cf108b4", "kind": "state", "module": "system" }, "message": "Package zstd (1.3.5) is already installed", "service": { "type": "system" }, "system": { "audit": { "package": { "entity_id": "c2c455d9f99375d9fefc61da52fa93778976d54b1964164778058980531d77dc", "installtime": "2018-08-30T18:41:23.85657356+01:00", "name": "zstd", "summary": "Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm", "url": "http://zstd.net/", "version": "1.3.5" } } } }