- Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Using ECS
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- Base Fields
- Agent Fields
- Autonomous System Fields
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- Destination Fields
- Device Fields
- DLL Fields
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- ECS Fields
- ELF Header Fields
- Email Fields
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- Event Fields
- FaaS Fields
- File Fields
- Geo Fields
- Group Fields
- Hash Fields
- Host Fields
- HTTP Fields
- Interface Fields
- Log Fields
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- Network Fields
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- Organization Fields
- Operating System Fields
- Package Fields
- PE Header Fields
- Process Fields
- Registry Fields
- Related Fields
- Risk information Fields
- Rule Fields
- Server Fields
- Service Fields
- Source Fields
- Threat Fields
- TLS Fields
- Tracing Fields
- URL Fields
- User Fields
- User agent Fields
- VLAN Fields
- Volume Fields
- Vulnerability Fields
- x509 Certificate Fields
- ECS Categorization Fields
- Migrating to ECS
- Additional Information
- Release Notes
ECS Categorization Fields
editECS Categorization Fields
editAt a high level, ECS provides fields to classify events in two different ways:
"Where it’s from" (e.g., event.module
, event.dataset
, agent.type
, observer.type
, etc.),
and "What it is." The categorization fields hold the "What it is" information,
independent of the source of the events.
ECS defines four categorization fields for this purpose, each of which falls under the event.*
field set.
Categorization Fields
editIf your events don’t match any of these categorization values, you should leave the fields empty. This will ensure you can start populating the fields once the appropriate categorization values are published, in a later release.
Categorization Usage
editUsing the categorization fields contains examples combining the categorization fields to classify different types of events.
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