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Glossary of ECS Terms
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edit- ECS
- Elastic Common Schema. The Elastic Common Schema (ECS) is a document schema for Elasticsearch, for use cases such as logging and metrics. ECS defines a common set of fields, their datatype, and gives guidance on their correct usage. ECS is used to improve uniformity of event data coming from different sources.