- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Auditbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Auditbeat
- Configure
- Modules
- General settings
- Project paths
- Config file reloading
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get Help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Auditbeat fails to watch folders because too many files are open
- Auditbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Dashboard could not locate the index-pattern
- Contribute 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.
Beat fields
editBeat fields
editContains common beat fields available in all event types.
-
agent.hostname -
Deprecated - use agent.name or agent.id to identify an agent. Hostname of the agent.
type: keyword
-
beat.timezone -
type: alias
alias to: event.timezone
-
fields -
Contains user configurable fields.
type: object
-
beat.name -
type: alias
alias to: host.name
-
beat.hostname -
type: alias
alias to: agent.hostname
-
timeseries.instance -
Time series instance id
type: keyword
Was this helpful?
Thank you for your feedback.