System process dataset

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This 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 process dataset of the system module.

It is implemented for Linux, macOS (Darwin), and Windows.

Example dashboard

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The dataset comes with a sample dashboard:

Auditbeat System Process Dashboard

Fields

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For 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": "process_started",
        "dataset": "process",
        "kind": "event",
        "module": "system"
    },
    "message": "Process zsh (PID: 12936) by user elastic STARTED",
    "process": {
        "args": [
            "zsh"
        ],
        "entity_id": "e2e0c5f51b093b71afed6af23debc906090d2f2f2afa9b930bf7e0803a6b53d5",
        "executable": "/bin/zsh",
        "name": "zsh",
        "pid": 12936,
        "ppid": 3858,
        "start": "2019-01-21T15:01:54.782288Z",
        "working_directory": "/Users/elastic"
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "system"
    },
    "user": {
        "effective": {
            "group": {
                "id": "1000"
            },
            "id": "1000"
        },
        "group": {
            "id": "1000",
            "name": "elastic"
        },
        "id": "1000",
        "name": "elastic",
        "saved": {
            "group": {
                "id": "1000"
            },
            "id": "1000"
        }
    }
}