- 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
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- 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
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- 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
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- syslog
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- 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
- ECS fields
- Flow Event fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- 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
- High RSS memory usage due to MADV settings
- Fields show up as nested JSON in Kibana
- Contribute to Beats
These fields contain data about the environment in which the transaction or flow was captured.
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type
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The type of the transaction (for example, HTTP, MySQL, Redis, or RUM) or "flow" in case of flows.
required: True
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server.process.name
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The name of the process that served the transaction.
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server.process.args
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The command-line of the process that served the transaction.
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server.process.executable
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Absolute path to the server process executable.
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server.process.working_directory
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The working directory of the server process.
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server.process.start
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The time the server process started.
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client.process.name
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The name of the process that initiated the transaction.
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client.process.args
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The command-line of the process that initiated the transaction.
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client.process.executable
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Absolute path to the client process executable.
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client.process.working_directory
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The working directory of the client process.
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client.process.start
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The time the client process started.
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real_ip
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If the server initiating the transaction is a proxy, this field contains the original client IP address. For HTTP, for example, the IP address extracted from a configurable HTTP header, by default
X-Forwarded-For
. Unless this field is disabled, it always has a value, and it matches theclient_ip
for non proxy clients.type: alias
alias to: network.forwarded_ip
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transport
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The transport protocol used for the transaction. If not specified, then tcp is assumed.
type: alias
alias to: network.transport