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Required fields

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[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

This section lists the fields the Infrastructure UI uses to display data. Please note that some of the fields listed here are not ECS fields.

Additional field details
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The event.dataset field is required to display data properly in some views. This field is a combination of metricset.module, which is the Metricbeat module name, and metricset.name, which is the metricset name.

To determine each metric’s optimal time interval, all charts use metricset.period. If metricset.period is not available, then it falls back to 1 minute intervals.

Base fields
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The base field set contains all fields which are on the top level. These fields are common across all types of events.

Field Description Type

@timestamp

Date/time when the event originated.

This is the date/time extracted from the event, typically representing when the source generated the event. If the event source has no original timestamp, this value is typically populated by the first time the pipeline received the event. Required field for all events.

Example: May 27, 2020 @ 15:22:27.982

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message

For log events the message field contains the log message, optimized for viewing in a log viewer.

For structured logs without an original message field, other fields can be concatenated to form a human-readable summary of the event.

If multiple messages exist, they can be combined into one message.

Example: Hello World

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Hosts fields
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These fields must be mapped to display host data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

host.name

Name of the host.

It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use.

Example: MacBook-Elastic.local

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host.ip

IP of the host that records the event.

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Docker container fields
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These fields must be mapped to display Docker container data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

container.id

Unique container id.

Example: data

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container.name

Container name.

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container.ip_address

IP of the container.

Not an ECS field

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Kubernetes pod fields
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These fields must be mapped to display Kubernetes pod data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

kubernetes.pod.uid

Kubernetes Pod UID.

Example: 8454328b-673d-11ea-7d80-21010a840123

Not an ECS field

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kubernetes.pod.name

Kubernetes pod name.

Example: nginx-demo

Not an ECS field

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kubernetes.pod.ip

IP of the Kubernetes pod.

Not an ECS field

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AWS EC2 instance fields
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These fields must be mapped to display EC2 instance data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

cloud.instance.id

Instance ID of the host machine.

Example: i-1234567890abcdef0

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cloud.instance.name

Instance name of the host machine.

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aws.ec2.instance.public.ip

Instance public IP of the host machine.

Not an ECS field

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AWS S3 bucket fields
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These fields must be mapped to display S3 bucket data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

aws.s3.bucket.name

The name or ID of the AWS S3 bucket.

Not an ECS field

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AWS SQS queue fields
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These fields must be mapped to display SQS queue data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

aws.sqs.queue.name

The name or ID of the AWS SQS queue.

Not an ECS field

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AWS RDS database fields
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These fields must be mapped to display RDS database data in the Infrastructure app.

Field Description Type

aws.rds.db_instance.arn

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for each RDS.

Not an ECS field

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aws.rds.db_instance.identifier

Contains a user-supplied database identifier. This identifier is the unique key that identifies a DB instance.

Not an ECS field

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Additional grouping fields
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Depending on which entity you select in the Inventory view, these additional fields can be mapped to group entities by.

Field Description Type

cloud.availability_zone

Availability zone in which this host is running.

Example: us-east-1c

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cloud.machine.type

Machine type of the host machine.

Example: t2.medium

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cloud.region

Region in which this host is running.

Example: us-east-1

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cloud.instance.id

Instance ID of the host machine.

Example: i-1234567890abcdef0

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cloud.provider

Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean.

Example: aws

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cloud.instance.name

Instance name of the host machine.

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cloud.project.id

Name of the project in Google Cloud.

Not an ECS field

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service.type

The type of service data is collected from.

The type can be used to group and correlate logs and metrics from one service type.

For example, the service type for metrics collected from Elasticsearch is elasticsearch.

Example: elasticsearch

Not an ECS field

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host.hostname

Name of the host. This field is required if you want to use machine learning features

It normally contains what the hostname command returns on the host machine.

Example: Elastic.local

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host.os.name

Operating system name, without the version.

Multi-fields:

os.name.text (type: text)

Example: Mac OS X

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host.os.kernel

Operating system kernel version as a raw string.

Example: 4.4.0-112-generic

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