- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Packetbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Packetbeat
- Configure
- Traffic sniffing
- Network flows
- Protocols
- Processes
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
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- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
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- decode_xml
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- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
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- dns
- drop_event
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- fingerprint
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- Internal queue
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- HTTP endpoint
- Instrumentation
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DHCPv4 fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
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- Flow Event fields
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- MySQL fields
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- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- SIP fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- Detailed TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Visualize Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Record a trace
- Common problems
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Packetbeat doesn’t see any packets when using mirror ports
- Packetbeat can’t capture traffic from Windows loopback interface
- Packetbeat is missing long running transactions
- Packetbeat isn’t capturing MySQL performance data
- Packetbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @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
- Dashboard could not locate the index-pattern
- Fields show up as nested JSON in Kibana
- Contribute 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.
Flow Event fields
editFlow Event fields
editThese fields contain data about the flow itself.
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flow.final -
Indicates if event is last event in flow. If final is false, the event reports an intermediate flow state only.
type: boolean
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flow.id -
Internal flow ID based on connection meta data and address.
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flow.vlan -
VLAN identifier from the 802.1q frame. In case of a multi-tagged frame this field will be an array with the outer tag’s VLAN identifier listed first.
type: long
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flow_id -
type: alias
alias to: flow.id
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final -
type: alias
alias to: flow.final
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vlan -
type: alias
alias to: flow.vlan
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source.stats.net_bytes_total -
type: alias
alias to: source.bytes
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source.stats.net_packets_total -
type: alias
alias to: source.packets
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dest.stats.net_bytes_total -
type: alias
alias to: destination.bytes
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dest.stats.net_packets_total -
type: alias
alias to: destination.packets
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