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Version: 1.4.0

ECS

Elastic Common Schema (ECS) is a specification that defines a common set of fields for ingesting data into Elasticsearch. Field groups include:

Field GroupCore FieldsDescription
Base Fields@timestamp, tags, labels, messageUniversal fields that appear in every event
Hosthost.name, host.ip, host.os.*, host.macInformation about the host machine
Networknetwork.protocol, network.type, network.direction, network.bytesNetwork activity details
Source/Destinationsource.ip, source.port, dest.ip, dest.portCommunication endpoint information
Useruser.id, user.name, user.domain, user.emailUser-related information
Eventevent.category, event.type, event.action, event.outcomeEvent classification details
Filefile.path, file.size, file.type, file.hash.*File-related information
Processprocess.pid, process.name, process.args, process.parent.*Process execution details
Errorerror.code, error.message, error.type, error.stack_traceError-related information
Tracetrace.id, span.id, transaction.idDistributed tracing data