- Metricbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Contributing to Beats
- Getting started with Metricbeat
- Setting up and running Metricbeat
- Upgrading Metricbeat
- How Metricbeat works
- Configuring Metricbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse logs by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Set up logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- metricbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Aerospike module
- Apache module
- Ceph module
- Couchbase module
- Docker module
- Dropwizard module
- Elasticsearch module
- Golang module
- HAProxy module
- HTTP module
- Jolokia module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Kubernetes module
- Kubernetes container metricset
- Kubernetes event metricset
- Kubernetes node metricset
- Kubernetes pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_container metricset
- Kubernetes state_deployment metricset
- Kubernetes state_node metricset
- Kubernetes state_pod metricset
- Kubernetes state_replicaset metricset
- Kubernetes system metricset
- Kubernetes volume metricset
- Memcached module
- MongoDB module
- MySQL module
- Nginx module
- PHP-FPM module
- PostgreSQL Module
- Prometheus module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- System module
- vSphere module
- Windows module
- ZooKeeper module
- Exported Fields
- Aerospike Fields
- Apache Fields
- Beat Fields
- Ceph Fields
- Cloud Provider Metadata Fields
- Common Fields
- Couchbase Fields
- docker Fields
- Docker Fields
- Dropwizard Fields
- Elasticsearch Fields
- Golang Fields
- HAProxy Fields
- HTTP Fields
- Jolokia Fields
- Kafka Fields
- Kibana Fields
- kubernetes Fields
- Kubernetes Fields
- Memcached Fields
- MongoDB Fields
- MySQL Fields
- Nginx Fields
- PHP-FPM Fields
- PostgreSQL Fields
- Prometheus Fields
- RabbitMQ Fields
- Redis Fields
- System Fields
- vSphere Fields
- Windows Fields
- ZooKeeper Fields
- Securing Metricbeat
- Troubleshooting
WARNING: Version 6.0 of Metricbeat has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Beat Fields
editBeat Fields
editContains common beat fields available in all event types.
beat.name
editThe name of the Beat sending the log messages. If the Beat name is set in the configuration file, then that value is used. If it is not set, the hostname is used. To set the Beat name, use the name option in the configuration file.
beat.hostname
editThe hostname as returned by the operating system on which the Beat is running.
beat.timezone
editThe timezone as returned by the operating system on which the Beat is running.
beat.version
editThe version of the beat that generated this event.
@timestamp
edittype: date
example: August 26th 2016, 12:35:53.332
format: date
required: True
The timestamp when the event log record was generated.
tags
editArbitrary tags that can be set per Beat and per transaction type.
fields
edittype: object
Contains user configurable fields.
error Fields
editError fields containing additional info in case of errors.
error.message
edittype: text
Error message.
error.code
edittype: long
Error code.
error.type
edittype: keyword
Error type.
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