- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting Started With Filebeat
- Step 1: Install Filebeat
- Step 2: Configure Filebeat
- Step 3: Configure Filebeat to use Logstash
- Step 4: Load the index template in Elasticsearch
- Step 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
- Step 6: Start Filebeat
- Step 7: View the sample Kibana dashboards
- Quick start: modules for common log formats
- Repositories for APT and YUM
- Setting up and running Filebeat
- Upgrading Filebeat
- How Filebeat works
- Configuring Filebeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Configure inputs
- Manage multiline messages
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Set up index lifecycle management
- Load balance the output hosts
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Alias fields
- Apache2 fields
- Auditd fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- elasticsearch fields
- haproxy fields
- Host fields
- Icinga fields
- IIS fields
- Kafka fields
- kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Log file content fields
- logstash fields
- mongodb fields
- MySQL fields
- Nginx fields
- Osquery fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Redis fields
- System fields
- Traefik fields
- Monitoring Filebeat
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating from Logstash Forwarder to Filebeat
- 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.
Host fields
editHost fields
editInfo collected for the host machine.
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host.name -
type: keyword
Hostname.
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host.id -
type: keyword
Unique host id.
-
host.architecture -
type: keyword
Host architecture (e.g. x86_64, arm, ppc, mips).
-
host.containerized -
type: boolean
If the host is a container.
-
host.os.platform -
type: keyword
OS platform (e.g. centos, ubuntu, windows).
-
host.os.name -
type: keyword
Operating system name (e.g. "Mac OS X").
-
host.os.build -
type: keyword
OS build information (e.g. "18D109").
-
host.os.version -
type: keyword
OS version.
-
host.os.family -
type: keyword
OS family (e.g. redhat, debian, freebsd, windows).
-
host.ip -
type: ip
List of IP-addresses.
-
host.mac -
type: keyword
List of hardware-addresses, usually MAC-addresses.
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