- 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
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Load balance the output hosts
- 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
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Keep fields from events
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host 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
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Modules overview
- Apache module
- Auditd module
- Elasticsearch module
- haproxy module
- Icinga module
- IIS module
- Iptables module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Logstash module
- MongoDB module
- MySQL module
- Nginx module
- Osquery module
- PostgreSQL module
- Redis module
- Santa module
- Suricata module
- System module
- Traefik module
- Zeek (Bro) Module
- Exported fields
- Apache fields
- Auditd fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- elasticsearch fields
- haproxy fields
- Host fields
- Icinga fields
- IIS fields
- iptables fields
- Kafka fields
- kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Log file content fields
- logstash fields
- mongodb fields
- MySQL fields
- NetFlow fields
- Nginx fields
- Osquery fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- Redis fields
- Google Santa fields
- Suricata fields
- System fields
- Traefik fields
- Zeek fields
- Monitoring Filebeat
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
Log file content fields
editLog file content fields
editContains log file lines.
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log.file.path -
type: keyword
required: False
The file from which the line was read. This field contains the absolute path to the file. For example:
/var/log/system.log. -
log.source.address -
type: keyword
required: False
Source address from which the log event was read / sent from.
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log.offset -
type: long
required: False
The file offset the reported line starts at.
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stream -
type: keyword
required: False
Log stream when reading container logs, can be stdout or stderr
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input.type -
required: True
The input type from which the event was generated. This field is set to the value specified for the
typeoption in the input section of the Filebeat config file. -
syslog.facility -
type: long
required: False
The facility extracted from the priority.
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syslog.priority -
type: long
required: False
The priority of the syslog event.
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syslog.severity_label -
type: keyword
required: False
The human readable severity.
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syslog.facility_label -
type: keyword
required: False
The human readable facility.
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process.program -
type: keyword
required: False
The name of the program.
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log.flags -
This field contains the flags of the event.
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http.response.content_length -
type: alias
alias to: http.response.body.bytes
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user_agent.os.full_name -
type: keyword
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fileset.name -
type: keyword
The Filebeat fileset that generated this event.
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fileset.module -
type: alias
alias to: event.module
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read_timestamp -
type: alias
alias to: event.created