- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Auditbeat
- Setting up and running Auditbeat
- Upgrading Auditbeat
- Configuring Auditbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Reload the configuration dynamically
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Decode Base64 fields
- Decompress gzip fields
- Community ID Network Flow Hash
- Convert
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Extract array
- Keep fields from events
- Registered Domain
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Add Observer metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure 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
- 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
- @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
- 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.
Beat fields
editBeat fields
editContains common beat fields available in all event types.
-
agent.hostname -
Hostname of the agent.
type: keyword
-
beat.timezone -
type: alias
alias to: event.timezone
-
fields -
Contains user configurable fields.
type: object
error
editError fields containing additional info in case of errors.
-
error.type -
Error type.
type: keyword
-
beat.name -
type: alias
alias to: host.name
-
beat.hostname -
type: alias
alias to: agent.hostname
-
timeseries.instance -
Time series instance id
type: keyword
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