- Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide: other versions:
- Fleet and Elastic Agent overview
- Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities
- Quick starts
- Migrate from Beats to Elastic Agent
- Set up Fleet Server
- Install Elastic Agents
- Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
- Install standalone Elastic Agents (advanced users)
- Install Elastic Agents in a containerized environment
- Installation layout
- Air-gapped environments
- Use a proxy server with Elastic Agent and Fleet
- Uninstall Elastic Agents from edge hosts
- Start and stop Elastic Agents on edge hosts
- Elastic Agent configuration encryption
- Secure connections
- Manage Elastic Agents in Fleet
- Manage integrations
- Configure standalone Elastic Agents
- Define processors
- Processor syntax
- 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
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_cef
- decode_csv_fields
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- parse_aws_vpc_flow_log
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Command reference
- Troubleshoot
- Release notes
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Generate an ID for an event
editGenerate an ID for an event
editThe add_id
processor generates a unique ID for an event.
Example
edit- add_id: ~
Configuration settings
editElastic Agent processors execute before ingest pipelines, which means that they process the raw event data rather than the final event sent to Elasticsearch. For related limitations, refer to What are some limitations of using processors?
Name | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
|
No |
|
Field where the generated ID will be stored. |
|
No |
|
Type of ID to generate. Currently only |
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