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Common Fields

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Common Fields

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These fields contain data about the environment in which the transaction or flow was captured.

server

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The name of the server that served the transaction.

client_server

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The name of the server that initiated the transaction.

service

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The name of the logical service that served the transaction.

client_service

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The name of the logical service that initiated the transaction.

ip

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format: dotted notation.

The IP address of the server that served the transaction.

client_ip

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format: dotted notation.

The IP address of the server that initiated the transaction.

real_ip

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format: Dotted notation.

If the server initiating the transaction is a proxy, this field contains the original client IP address. For HTTP, for example, the IP address extracted from a configurable HTTP header, by default X-Forwarded-For. Unless this field is disabled, it always has a value, and it matches the client_ip for non proxy clients.

client_location

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type: geo_point

example: 40.715, -74.011

DEPRECATED. Please use client_geoip instead. The GeoIP location of the real_ip IP address or of the client_ip address if the real_ip is disabled. The field is a string containing the latitude and longitude separated by a comma.

client_geoip Fields

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The GeoIP information of the client.

client_geoip.location

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type: geo_point

example: {lat: 51, lon: 9}

The GeoIP location of the client_ip address. This field is available only if you define a GeoIP Processor as a pipeline in the Ingest GeoIP processor plugin or using Logstash.