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Platform Observability

Collect stack component logs with Elastic Agent

Version
0.0.2 (View all)
Compatible Kibana version(s)
8.3.0 or higher
Supported Serverless project types

Security
Observability
Subscription level
Basic

Compatibility

This package works with Kibana 8.3.0 and later.

Kibana logs

The Kibana integration collects logs from Kibana instance.

Logs

Audit

Audit logs collects the Kibana audit logs.

An example event for kibana_audit looks as following:

{
    "event": {
        "action": "http_request",
        "category": [
            "web"
        ],
        "outcome": "unknown"
    },
    "http": {
        "request": {
            "method": "get"
        }
    },
    "url": {
        "domain": "localhost",
        "path": "/internal/security/session",
        "port": 5601,
        "scheme": "http"
    },
    "user": {
        "name": "elastic",
        "roles": [
            "superuser"
        ]
    },
    "kibana": {
        "space_id": "default",
        "session_id": "ccZ0sbxrmmJwo+/y2Mn1tmGIrKOuZYaF8voUh0SkA/k="
    },
    "trace": {
        "id": "1c8c5808-d2d6-41fc-8cb7-998aa8996be9"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-06-29T12:05:03.742+00:00",
    "message": "User is requesting [/internal/security/session] endpoint",
    "log": {
        "level": "INFO",
        "logger": "plugins.security.audit.ecs"
    },
    "process": {
        "pid": 7
    },
    "transaction": {
        "id": "f8863d86567119e6"
    }
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionType
@timestamp
Event timestamp.
date
data_stream.dataset
Data stream dataset.
constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace
Data stream namespace.
constant_keyword
data_stream.type
Data stream type.
constant_keyword
ecs.version
ECS version this event conforms to. ecs.version is a required field and must exist in all events. When querying across multiple indices -- which may conform to slightly different ECS versions -- this field lets integrations adjust to the schema version of the events.
keyword
event.action
The action captured by the event. This describes the information in the event. It is more specific than event.category. Examples are group-add, process-started, file-created. The value is normally defined by the implementer.
keyword
event.category
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the second level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.category represents the "big buckets" of ECS categories. For example, filtering on event.category:process yields all events relating to process activity. This field is closely related to event.type, which is used as a subcategory. This field is an array. This will allow proper categorization of some events that fall in multiple categories.
keyword
event.dataset
Name of the dataset. If an event source publishes more than one type of log or events (e.g. access log, error log), the dataset is used to specify which one the event comes from. It's recommended but not required to start the dataset name with the module name, followed by a dot, then the dataset name.
keyword
event.ingested
Timestamp when an event arrived in the central data store. This is different from @timestamp, which is when the event originally occurred. It's also different from event.created, which is meant to capture the first time an agent saw the event. In normal conditions, assuming no tampering, the timestamps should chronologically look like this: @timestamp < event.created < event.ingested.
date
event.kind
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the highest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.kind gives high-level information about what type of information the event contains, without being specific to the contents of the event. For example, values of this field distinguish alert events from metric events. The value of this field can be used to inform how these kinds of events should be handled. They may warrant different retention, different access control, it may also help understand whether the data coming in at a regular interval or not.
keyword
event.outcome
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the lowest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.outcome simply denotes whether the event represents a success or a failure from the perspective of the entity that produced the event. Note that when a single transaction is described in multiple events, each event may populate different values of event.outcome, according to their perspective. Also note that in the case of a compound event (a single event that contains multiple logical events), this field should be populated with the value that best captures the overall success or failure from the perspective of the event producer. Further note that not all events will have an associated outcome. For example, this field is generally not populated for metric events, events with event.type:info, or any events for which an outcome does not make logical sense.
keyword
http.request.method
HTTP request method. The value should retain its casing from the original event. For example, GET, get, and GeT are all considered valid values for this field.
keyword
kibana.add_to_spaces
The set of space ids that a saved object was shared to.
keyword
kibana.authentication_provider
The authentication provider associated with a login event.
keyword
kibana.authentication_realm
The Elasticsearch authentication realm name which fulfilled a login event.
keyword
kibana.authentication_type
The authentication provider type associated with a login event.
keyword
kibana.delete_from_spaces
The set of space ids that a saved object was removed from.
keyword
kibana.lookup_realm
The Elasticsearch lookup realm which fulfilled a login event.
keyword
kibana.saved_object.id
The id of the saved object associated with this event.
keyword
kibana.saved_object.type
The type of the saved object associated with this event.
keyword
kibana.session_id
The ID of the user session associated with this event. Each login attempt results in a unique session id.
keyword
kibana.space_id
The id of the space associated with this event.
keyword
log.level
Original log level of the log event. If the source of the event provides a log level or textual severity, this is the one that goes in log.level. If your source doesn't specify one, you may put your event transport's severity here (e.g. Syslog severity). Some examples are warn, err, i, informational.
keyword
log.logger
The name of the logger inside an application. This is usually the name of the class which initialized the logger, or can be a custom name.
keyword
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.
match_only_text
process.pid
Process id.
long
trace.id
Unique identifier of the trace. A trace groups multiple events like transactions that belong together. For example, a user request handled by multiple inter-connected services.
keyword
transaction.id
Unique identifier of the transaction within the scope of its trace. A transaction is the highest level of work measured within a service, such as a request to a server.
keyword
url.domain
Domain of the url, such as "www.elastic.co". In some cases a URL may refer to an IP and/or port directly, without a domain name. In this case, the IP address would go to the domain field. If the URL contains a literal IPv6 address enclosed by [ and ] (IETF RFC 2732), the [ and ] characters should also be captured in the domain field.
keyword
url.path
Path of the request, such as "/search".
wildcard
url.port
Port of the request, such as 443.
long
url.query
The query field describes the query string of the request, such as "q=elasticsearch". The ? is excluded from the query string. If a URL contains no ?, there is no query field. If there is a ? but no query, the query field exists with an empty string. The exists query can be used to differentiate between the two cases.
keyword
url.scheme
Scheme of the request, such as "https". Note: The : is not part of the scheme.
keyword
user.name
Short name or login of the user.
keyword
user.name.text
Multi-field of user.name.
match_only_text
user.roles
Array of user roles at the time of the event.
keyword

Log

Log collects the Kibana logs.

An example event for kibana_log looks as following:

{
    "http": {
        "request": {
            "id": "unknownId",
            "method": "GET"
        },
        "response": {
            "body": {
                "bytes": 118
            },
            "status_code": 200
        }
    },
    "url": {
        "path": "/_nodes",
        "query": "filter_path=nodes.*.version%2Cnodes.*.http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "8.0.0"
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-07-14T10:35:25.366+00:00",
    "message": "200 - 118.0B\nGET /_nodes?filter_path=nodes.*.version%2Cnodes.*.http.publish_address%2Cnodes.*.ip",
    "log": {
        "level": "DEBUG",
        "logger": "elasticsearch.query.data"
    },
    "process": {
        "pid": 7
    },
    "trace": {
        "id": "0cd8dd5a3483159a43c07e9205432775"
    },
    "transaction": {
        "id": "6301eca88fba8d99"
    }
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionType
@timestamp
Event timestamp.
date
data_stream.dataset
Data stream dataset.
constant_keyword
data_stream.namespace
Data stream namespace.
constant_keyword
data_stream.type
Data stream type.
constant_keyword
ecs.version
ECS version this event conforms to. ecs.version is a required field and must exist in all events. When querying across multiple indices -- which may conform to slightly different ECS versions -- this field lets integrations adjust to the schema version of the events.
keyword
event.dataset
Name of the dataset. If an event source publishes more than one type of log or events (e.g. access log, error log), the dataset is used to specify which one the event comes from. It's recommended but not required to start the dataset name with the module name, followed by a dot, then the dataset name.
keyword
event.ingested
Timestamp when an event arrived in the central data store. This is different from @timestamp, which is when the event originally occurred. It's also different from event.created, which is meant to capture the first time an agent saw the event. In normal conditions, assuming no tampering, the timestamps should chronologically look like this: @timestamp < event.created < event.ingested.
date
event.kind
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the highest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.kind gives high-level information about what type of information the event contains, without being specific to the contents of the event. For example, values of this field distinguish alert events from metric events. The value of this field can be used to inform how these kinds of events should be handled. They may warrant different retention, different access control, it may also help understand whether the data coming in at a regular interval or not.
keyword
event.outcome
This is one of four ECS Categorization Fields, and indicates the lowest level in the ECS category hierarchy. event.outcome simply denotes whether the event represents a success or a failure from the perspective of the entity that produced the event. Note that when a single transaction is described in multiple events, each event may populate different values of event.outcome, according to their perspective. Also note that in the case of a compound event (a single event that contains multiple logical events), this field should be populated with the value that best captures the overall success or failure from the perspective of the event producer. Further note that not all events will have an associated outcome. For example, this field is generally not populated for metric events, events with event.type:info, or any events for which an outcome does not make logical sense.
keyword
http.request.id
A unique identifier for each HTTP request to correlate logs between clients and servers in transactions. The id may be contained in a non-standard HTTP header, such as X-Request-ID or X-Correlation-ID.
keyword
http.request.method
HTTP request method. The value should retain its casing from the original event. For example, GET, get, and GeT are all considered valid values for this field.
keyword
http.response.body.bytes
Size in bytes of the response body.
long
http.response.status_code
HTTP response status code.
long
log.level
Original log level of the log event. If the source of the event provides a log level or textual severity, this is the one that goes in log.level. If your source doesn't specify one, you may put your event transport's severity here (e.g. Syslog severity). Some examples are warn, err, i, informational.
keyword
log.logger
The name of the logger inside an application. This is usually the name of the class which initialized the logger, or can be a custom name.
keyword
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.
match_only_text
process.pid
Process id.
long
trace.id
Unique identifier of the trace. A trace groups multiple events like transactions that belong together. For example, a user request handled by multiple inter-connected services.
keyword
transaction.id
Unique identifier of the transaction within the scope of its trace. A transaction is the highest level of work measured within a service, such as a request to a server.
keyword
url.path
Path of the request, such as "/search".
wildcard
url.query
The query field describes the query string of the request, such as "q=elasticsearch". The ? is excluded from the query string. If a URL contains no ?, there is no query field. If there is a ? but no query, the query field exists with an empty string. The exists query can be used to differentiate between the two cases.
keyword

Changelog

VersionDetailsKibana version(s)

0.0.2

Enhancement View pull request
Added categories and/or subcategories.

0.0.1

Enhancement View pull request
Initial draft of the package

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