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ECS Field Reference

This is the documentation of ECS version 8.16.0.

ECS defines multiple groups of related fields. They are called "field sets". The Base field set is the only one whose fields are defined at the root of the event.

All other field sets are defined as objects in Elasticsearch, under which all fields are defined.

For a single page representation of all fields, please see the generated CSV of fields.

Field Sets

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Field Set	Description
Base	All fields defined directly at the root of the events.
Agent	Fields about the monitoring agent.
Autonomous System	Fields describing an Autonomous System (Internet routing prefix).
Client	Fields about the client side of a network connection, used with server.
Cloud	Fields about the cloud resource.
Code Signature	These fields contain information about binary code signatures.
Container	Fields describing the container that generated this event.
Data Stream	The data_stream fields take part in defining the new data stream naming scheme.
Destination	Fields about the destination side of a network connection, used with source.
Device	Fields characterizing a (mobile) device a process or application is running on.
DLL	These fields contain information about code libraries dynamically loaded into processes.
DNS	Fields describing DNS queries and answers.
ECS	Meta-information specific to ECS.
ELF Header	These fields contain Linux Executable Linkable Format (ELF) metadata.
Email	Describes an email transaction.
Error	Fields about errors of any kind.
Event	Fields breaking down the event details.
FaaS	Fields describing functions as a service.
File	Fields describing files.
Geo	Fields describing a location.
Group	User’s group relevant to the event.
Hash	Hashes, usually file hashes.
Host	Fields describing the relevant computing instance.
HTTP	Fields describing an HTTP request.
Interface	Fields to describe observer interface information.
Log	Details about the event’s logging mechanism.
Mach-O Header	These fields contain Mac OS Mach Object file format (Mach-O) metadata.
Network	Fields describing the communication path over which the event happened.
Observer	Fields describing an entity observing the event from outside the host.
Orchestrator	Fields relevant to container orchestrators.
Organization	Fields describing the organization or company the event is associated with.
Operating System	OS fields contain information about the operating system.
Package	These fields contain information about an installed software package.
PE Header	These fields contain Windows Portable Executable (PE) metadata.
Process	These fields contain information about a process.
Registry	Fields related to Windows Registry operations.
Related	Fields meant to facilitate pivoting around a piece of data.
Risk information	Fields for describing risk score and level.
Rule	Fields to capture details about rules used to generate alerts or other notable events.
Server	Fields about the server side of a network connection, used with client.
Service	Fields describing the service for or from which the data was collected.
Source	Fields about the source side of a network connection, used with destination.
Threat	Fields to classify events and alerts according to a threat taxonomy.
TLS	Fields describing a TLS connection.
Tracing	Fields related to distributed tracing.
URL	Fields that let you store URLs in various forms.
User	Fields to describe the user relevant to the event.
User agent	Fields to describe a browser user_agent string.
VLAN	Fields to describe observed VLAN information.
Volume	Fields related to storage volume details.
Vulnerability	Fields to describe the vulnerability relevant to an event.
x509 Certificate	These fields contain x509 certificate metadata.

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