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Billing

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Billing

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Version

2.41.0 (View all)

Compatible Kibana version(s)

8.13.0 or higher
9.0.0 or higher

Supported Serverless project types
What’s this?

Security
Observability

Subscription level
What’s this?

Basic

Metrics

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The billing dataset collects Cloud Billing Reports information from Google Cloud BigQuery daily cost detail table. BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse. Cloud Billing export to BigQuery enables you to export detailed Google Cloud billing data (such as usage, cost estimates, and pricing data) automatically throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset that you specify. Then you can access your Cloud Billing data from BigQuery for detailed analysis.

Please see export cloud billing data to BigQuery for more details on how to export billing data.

In BigQuery dataset, detailed Google Cloud daily cost data is loaded into a data table named gcp_billing_export_v1_<BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID>. There is a defined schema for Google Cloud daily cost data that is exported to BigQuery. Please see daily cost detail data schema for more details.

For standard usage cost data, set the table pattern format to gcp_billing_export_v1. This table pattern is set as the default when no other is specified.

For detailed usage cost data, set the table pattern to gcp_billing_export_resource_v1. Detailed tables include the standard fields and additional fields, such as effective_price, enabling a more granular view of expenses.

Requirements

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You need Elasticsearch for storing and searching your data and Kibana for visualizing and managing it. You can use our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud, which is recommended, or self-manage the Elastic Stack on your own hardware.

Before using any GCP integration you will need:

  • GCP Credentials to connect with your GCP account.
  • GCP Permissions to make sure the service account you’re using to connect has permission to share the relevant data.

To collect GCP Billing metrics, the following permissions are required to access the necessary data:

  • roles/bigquery.dataViewer
  • roles/bigquery.jobUser
  • roles/billing.viewer

Configuration Parameters

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dataset_id

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The dataset_id is the unique identifier of your BigQuery dataset where your billing data is stored. You can find this ID in your Google Cloud Console under the BigQuery section.

table_pattern

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The table_pattern parameter allows you to specify which tables to retrieve from the specified dataset. This can be set to either gcp_billing_export_v1 for standard usage cost data or gcp_billing_export_resource_v1 for detailed usage cost data.

cost_type

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The cost_type parameter enables you to filter the cost data based on specific cost categories. You can select one of the following options:

  • regular: This cost type includes all the regular costs associated with your usage of GCP services. This does not include any taxes, adjustments, or rounding errors.
  • tax: This cost type includes all the taxes associated with your usage of GCP services. This does not include the regular costs, adjustments, or rounding errors.
  • adjustment: This cost type includes any adjustments made to your billing data. Adjustments can include credits, discounts, refunds, or any other modifications to the original costs.
  • rounding_error: This cost type includes any rounding errors that occurred when calculating your costs. These are typically very small amounts and are used to reconcile any discrepancies due to rounding.

Example Configuration

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Here’s an example of what your configuration might look like:

dataset_id: "my_billing_dataset"
table_pattern: "gcp_billing_export_resource_v1"
project_id: "my_project"
cost_type: "regular"

In this example, the Agent will pull data from all tables within the my_billing_dataset dataset that start with the pattern gcp_billing_export_resource_v1.

Sample Event

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Example

An example event for billing looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "id": "01475F-5B1080-1137E7"
        },
        "project": {
            "id": "elastic-bi",
            "name": "elastic-containerlib-prod"
        },
        "provider": "gcp"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "gcp.billing",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "gcp"
    },
    "gcp": {
        "billing": {
            "billing_account_id": "01475F-5B1080-1137E7",
            "cost_type": "regular",
            "invoice_month": "202106",
            "project_id": "containerlib-prod-12763",
            "project_name": "elastic-containerlib-prod",
            "total": 4717.170681,
            "sku_id": "0D56-2F80-52A5",
            "service_id": "6F81-5844-456A",
            "sku_description": "Network Inter Region Ingress from Jakarta to Americas",
            "service_description": "Compute Engine",
            "effective_price": 0.00292353,
            "tags": [
                {
                    "key": "stage",
                    "value": "prod"
                },
                {
                    "key": "size",
                    "value": "standard"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "billing",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "gcp"
    }
}

Exported fields

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ECS Field Reference

Please refer to the following document for detailed information on ECS fields.

Exported fields
Field Description Type

@timestamp

Event timestamp.

date

cloud.image.id

Image ID for the cloud instance.

keyword

data_stream.dataset

Data stream dataset.

constant_keyword

data_stream.namespace

Data stream namespace.

constant_keyword

data_stream.type

Data stream type.

constant_keyword

event.dataset

Event dataset

constant_keyword

event.module

Event module

constant_keyword

gcp.billing.billing_account_id

Project Billing Account ID.

keyword

gcp.billing.cost_type

Cost types include regular, tax, adjustment, and rounding_error.

keyword

gcp.billing.effective_price

The charged price for usage of the Google Cloud SKUs and SKU tiers. Reflects contract pricing if applicable, otherwise, it’s the list price.

float

gcp.billing.invoice_month

Billing report month.

keyword

gcp.billing.project_id

Project ID of the billing report belongs to.

keyword

gcp.billing.project_name

Project Name of the billing report belongs to.

keyword

gcp.billing.service_description

The Google Cloud service that reported the Cloud Billing data.

keyword

gcp.billing.service_id

The ID of the service that the usage is associated with.

keyword

gcp.billing.sku_description

A description of the resource type used by the service. For example, a resource type for Cloud Storage is Standard Storage US.

keyword

gcp.billing.sku_id

The ID of the resource used by the service.

keyword

gcp.billing.tags

A collection of key-value pairs that provide additional metadata.

nested

gcp.billing.tags.key

keyword

gcp.billing.tags.value

keyword

gcp.billing.total

Total billing amount.

float

host.containerized

If the host is a container.

boolean

host.os.build

OS build information.

keyword

host.os.codename

OS codename, if any.

keyword

Changelog

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Changelog
Version Details Kibana version(s)

2.41.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add support for Kibana 9.0.0.

8.13.0 or higher
9.0.0 or higher

2.40.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add missing category.

8.13.0 or higher

2.40.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add actor.entity.id and target.entity.id fields to audit logs.

8.13.0 or higher

2.39.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add related.entity field to audit logs.

8.13.0 or higher

2.38.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add policy_violation_info, metadata and related fields to audit logs.

Bug fix (View pull request)
Update GCP audit log dashboard to use correct email field.

8.13.0 or higher

2.37.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix definition of subfields of nested objects

8.13.0 or higher

2.37.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Improve GCP Billing documentation.

8.13.0 or higher

2.37.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Retain authenticationInfo.serviceAccountKeyName data.

8.13.0 or higher

2.36.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add global dataset filter for dashboards to improve performance.

8.13.0 or higher

2.35.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
ECS version updated to 8.11.0. Update the kibana constraint to ^8.13.0. Modified the field definitions to remove ECS fields made redundant by the ecs@mappings component template.

8.13.0 or higher

2.34.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix Redis metric type for persistence.rdb.bgsave_in_progress. Metric type should be boolean instead of long.

8.12.0 or higher

2.34.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add tags and processors to GCP Compute, Firestore, PostgreSQL.

8.12.0 or higher

2.33.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add tags and processors to GCP Storage

8.12.0 or higher

2.33.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update Legacy metric visualization to new metric in GCP Billing overview dashboard.

8.12.0 or higher

2.33.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Enable time series data for metrics data streams. This dramatically reduces storage for metrics and is expected to progressively improve query [performance](https://www.elastic.co/blog/70-percent-storage-savings-for-metrics-with-elastic-observability). For more details, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tsds.html.

8.12.0 or higher

2.32.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add dimensions mappings and the metrics_fingerprint field across all metrics data streams.

8.12.0 or higher

2.32.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add new billing data stream fields.

8.12.0 or higher

2.31.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix pipeline error parsing DNS logs with empty rdata field.

8.7.1 or higher

2.31.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add Cloud Run docs and fix policy template name to allow adding Cloud Run logs to the policy.

8.7.1 or higher

2.31.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Allow users to retain otherwised discarded fields.

8.7.1 or higher

2.30.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix mappings of group fields

8.7.1 or higher

2.30.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add tags.yml file so that integration’s dashboards and saved searches are tagged with "Security Solution" and displayed in the Security Solution UI.

Enhancement (View pull request)
Upgrade package spec to 3.0.0.

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix orphan dashboard references.

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add missing dashboard filters.

8.7.1 or higher

2.29.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add null checks and ignore_missing checks to the rename processor

8.7.1 or higher

2.29.0

Bug fix (View pull request)
Remove GCP CloudSQL deprecated, alpha or beta metrics and fix field types.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.5

Enhancement (View pull request)
Set metric type for GKE, Load Balancing, PubSub, Redis and Storage data streams.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.4

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate GCP Load Balancing HTTPS Overview dashboard to lens.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.3

Enhancement (View pull request)
Set metric type for Cloud Run, Compute, Dataproc and Firestore data streams.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate GCP Load Balancing TCP SSL Proxy Overview dashboard to lens.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Set metric type for CloudSQL data streams.

8.7.1 or higher

2.28.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate GCP Load Balancing L3 Overview dashboard to lens.

8.7.1 or higher

2.27.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP CloudSQL MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL dashboards.

8.7.1 or higher

2.26.0

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix GCP loadbalancing_metrics fields prefix.

8.7.1 or higher

2.25.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix check on gcp.audit.authorization_info[].granted.

8.7.1 or higher

2.25.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate GCP Billing input control to new control panel.

8.7.1 or higher

2.24.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP CloudSQL MySQL, Postgres, SQLServer data streams

8.7.1 or higher

2.23.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Convert security dashboards to lens.

8.7.1 or higher

2.22.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Change ownership in manifest.

8.6.0 or higher

2.22.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Ensure event.kind is correctly set for pipeline errors.

8.6.0 or higher

2.21.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.8.0.

8.6.0 or higher

2.20.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix invalid TSDS metric type for persistence.rdb.bgsave_in_progress field

8.6.0 or higher

2.20.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.7.0.

8.6.0 or higher

2.19.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate compute dashboard to lens and add datastream filter.

8.6.0 or higher

2.19.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add Cloud Run metrics datastream.

8.6.0 or higher

2.18.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Support subscription_num_goroutines and subscription_max_outstanding_messages for GCP PubSub input

8.6.0 or higher

2.17.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix IP Convert processor in Audit ingest pipeline.

8.6.0 or higher

2.17.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Added categories and/or subcategories.

8.6.0 or higher

2.17.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add Audit Log Overview dashboard

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GKE Overview dashboard

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add PubSub Overview dashboard

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add Storage Overview dashboard

8.6.0 or higher

2.16.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add logic to handle scalar request.policy values on audit

8.5.0 or higher

2.16.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Replace missing input control panel with new-style control.

8.5.0 or higher

2.16.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.6.0.

8.5.0 or higher

2.15.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update documentation.

8.5.0 or higher

2.15.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Compute pipeline test.

8.5.0 or higher

2.15.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Remove support for Kibana 7.17.x

Enhancement (View pull request)
Support multiple regions for metrics data streams

8.5.0 or higher

2.14.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.5.0.

8.3.0 or higher

2.13.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Migrate dashboard by values

8.3.0 or higher

2.12.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Remove duplicate fields.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.12.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Redis

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.12

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add GKE ingest pipeline.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.11

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix type of dns.answers.ttl.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.10

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add ingest pipeline for dataproc.

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP loadbalancing ingest pipeline

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP PubSub ingest pipeline

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Storage ingest pipeline

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Firestore ingest pipeline

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Compute ingest pipeline

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.10-beta.6

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add ingest pipeline for dataproc.

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2.11.10-beta.5

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP loadbalancing ingest pipeline

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2.11.10-beta.4

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP PubSub ingest pipeline

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2.11.10-beta.3

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Storage ingest pipeline

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2.11.10-beta.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Firestore ingest pipeline

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2.11.10-beta.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Compute ingest pipeline

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2.11.9

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix GKE kubernetes.io indentation.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.8

Enhancement (View pull request)
Remove duplicate fields.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.7

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move Dataproc lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.6

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move LoadBalancing lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.5

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move Storage lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.4

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move PubSub lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.3

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move GKE lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move Firestore lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Use ECS geo.location definition.

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.11.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move Compute lightweight module config into integration

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.10.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP PubSub Data stream

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.9.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Dataproc Data stream

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.8.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP GKE Data Stream

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.7.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Storage Data Stream

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.6.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add Load Balancing logs datastream

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.5.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Load Balancing Metricset

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix credentials_json escaping in loadbalancing_metrics

Bug fix (View pull request)
Update loadbalancing_metrics default period to 60s

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix event.dataset for loadbalancing_metrics

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add loadbalancing_metrics distribution fields

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.4.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.4.0

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.3.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add additional parsing for DNS Public Zone Query Logs

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.2.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Fix Billing policy template title and default period for gcp.compute

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.2.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Remove fields duplicated in ECS fields

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.1.0

Enhancement (foobar[View pull request])
restore compatibility with 7.17 release track

7.17.6 or higher
8.3.0 or higher

2.0.0

Breaking change (View pull request)
Move configurations to support metrics. This change is breaking, as it moves some configuration from the top level variables to data stream variables.

This change involves project_id, credentials_file and credentials_json variables that are moved from input level configuration to package level configuration (as those variables are reused across all inputs/data streams).

Users with GCP integration enabled will need to input values for these variables again when upgrading the policies to this version.

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Billing Data Stream

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Compute Data Stream

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add GCP Firestore Data stream

8.3.0 or higher

1.10.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update package to ECS 8.3.0.

7.17.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.9.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix GCP auditlog parsing issue on response status

7.17.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.9.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update readme

7.17.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.9.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Preserve request and response in flattened fields.

7.17.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.8.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add missing cloud.provider field.

7.17.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.7.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add dashboards for firewall and vpc flow logs.

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add missing mappings for several event.* fields.

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1.6.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Clarify the GCP privileges required by the Pub/Sub input.

7.16.3 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.6.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update to ECS 8.2

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1.5.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add documentation for multi-fields

7.16.3 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.5.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Improve Google Cloud Platform docs.

7.16.3 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.4.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Remove emtpy values, names with only dots, and invalid client IPs.

7.16.3 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.4.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix quoting of the credentials_json value in policy templates.

7.16.3 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.4.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add gcp.dns integration

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1.3.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Add Ingest Pipeline script to map IANA Protocol Numbers

7.15.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.3.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update to ECS 8.0

7.15.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.2.2

Bug fix (View pull request)
Regenerate test files using the new GeoIP database

7.15.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.2.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Change test public IPs to the supported subset

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1.2.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Add 8.0.0 version constraint

7.15.0 or higher
8.0.0 or higher

1.1.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update Title and Description.

7.15.0 or higher

1.1.1

Bug fix (View pull request)
Fix logic that checks for the forwarded tag

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1.1.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update to ECS 1.12.0

7.15.0 or higher

1.0.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Move from experimental to GA

Enhancement (View pull request)
remove experimental from data_sets

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0.3.3

Enhancement (View pull request)
Convert to generated ECS fields

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0.3.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
update to ECS 1.11.0

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0.3.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
Escape special characters in docs

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0.3.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Update integration description

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0.2.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
Set "event.module" and "event.dataset"

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0.1.0

Enhancement (View pull request)
update to ECS 1.10.0 and adding event.original options

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0.0.2

Enhancement (View pull request)
update to ECS 1.9.0

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0.0.1

Enhancement (View pull request)
initial release

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