This integration is powered by Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, forward data from remote services or hardware, and more. Refer to our documentation for a detailed comparison between Beats and Elastic Agent.
Prefer to use Beats for this use case? See Filebeat modules for logs or Metricbeat modules for metrics.
See the integrations quick start guides to get started:
Overview
Logs
The cloudwatch
dataset collects CloudWatch logs. Users can use Amazon
CloudWatch logs to monitor, store, and access log files from different sources.
Export logs from log groups to an Amazon S3 bucket which has SQS notification
setup already.
Exported fields
Field | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
@timestamp | Event timestamp. | date |
aws.cloudwatch.message | CloudWatch log message. | text |
cloud.account.id | The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier. | keyword |
cloud.availability_zone | Availability zone in which this host is running. | keyword |
cloud.image.id | Image ID for the cloud instance. | keyword |
cloud.instance.id | Instance ID of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.instance.name | Instance name of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.machine.type | Machine type of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.project.id | Name of the project in Google Cloud. | keyword |
cloud.provider | Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean. | keyword |
cloud.region | Region in which this host is running. | keyword |
container.id | Unique container id. | keyword |
container.image.name | Name of the image the container was built on. | keyword |
container.labels | Image labels. | object |
container.name | Container name. | keyword |
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 |
error.message | Error message. | match_only_text |
event.dataset | Event dataset | constant_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.module | Event module | constant_keyword |
host.architecture | Operating system architecture. | keyword |
host.containerized | If the host is a container. | boolean |
host.domain | Name of the domain of which the host is a member. For example, on Windows this could be the host's Active Directory domain or NetBIOS domain name. For Linux this could be the domain of the host's LDAP provider. | keyword |
host.hostname | Hostname of the host. It normally contains what the hostname command returns on the host machine. | keyword |
host.id | Unique host id. As hostname is not always unique, use values that are meaningful in your environment. Example: The current usage of beat.name . | keyword |
host.ip | Host ip addresses. | ip |
host.mac | Host mac addresses. | keyword |
host.name | Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use. | keyword |
host.os.build | OS build information. | keyword |
host.os.codename | OS codename, if any. | keyword |
host.os.family | OS family (such as redhat, debian, freebsd, windows). | keyword |
host.os.kernel | Operating system kernel version as a raw string. | keyword |
host.os.name | Operating system name, without the version. | keyword |
host.os.name.text | Multi-field of host.os.name . | text |
host.os.platform | Operating system platform (such centos, ubuntu, windows). | keyword |
host.os.version | Operating system version as a raw string. | keyword |
host.type | Type of host. For Cloud providers this can be the machine type like t2.medium . If vm, this could be the container, for example, or other information meaningful in your environment. | 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 |
tags | List of keywords used to tag each event. | keyword |
An example event for cloudwatch
looks as following:
{
"@timestamp": "2020-02-20T07:02:37.000Z",
"data_stream": {
"namespace": "default",
"type": "logs",
"dataset": "aws.cloudwatch_logs"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "8.0.0"
},
"event": {
"ingested": "2021-07-19T21:47:04.696803300Z",
"original": "2020-02-20T07:02:37.000Z Feb 20 07:02:37 ip-172-31-81-156 ec2net: [get_meta] Trying to get http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/12:e2:a9:95:8b:97/local-ipv4s"
},
"aws": {
"cloudwatch": {
"message": "ip-172-31-81-156 ec2net: [get_meta] Trying to get http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/12:e2:a9:95:8b:97/local-ipv4s"
}
},
"tags": [
"preserve_original_event"
]
}
Metrics
An example event for cloudwatch
looks as following:
{
"@timestamp": "2020-05-28T17:17:02.812Z",
"event": {
"duration": 14119105951,
"dataset": "aws.cloudwatch_metrics",
"module": "aws"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.5.0"
},
"agent": {
"ephemeral_id": "17803f33-b617-4ce9-a9ac-e218c02aeb4b",
"id": "12f376ef-5186-4e8b-a175-70f1140a8f30",
"name": "MacBook-Elastic.local",
"type": "metricbeat",
"version": "8.0.0"
},
"service": {
"type": "aws"
},
"cloud": {
"provider": "aws",
"region": "us-west-2",
"account": {
"name": "elastic-beats",
"id": "428152502467"
}
},
"aws": {
"dimensions": {
"InstanceId": "i-0830bfecfa7173cbe"
},
"ec2": {
"metrics": {
"DiskWriteOps": {
"avg": 0,
"max": 0
},
"CPUUtilization": {
"avg": 0.7661943132361363,
"max": 0.833333333333333
}
}
},
"cloudwatch": {
"namespace": "AWS/EC2"
}
},
"metricset": {
"period": 300000,
"name": "cloudwatch"
}
}
Exported fields
Field | Description | Type |
---|---|---|
@timestamp | Event timestamp. | date |
aws.*.metrics.*.* | Metrics that returned from Cloudwatch API query. | object |
aws.cloudwatch.namespace | The namespace specified when query cloudwatch api. | keyword |
aws.dimensions.* | Metric dimensions. | object |
aws.s3.bucket.name | Name of a S3 bucket. | keyword |
aws.tags.* | Tag key value pairs from aws resources. | object |
cloud | Fields related to the cloud or infrastructure the events are coming from. | group |
cloud.account.id | The cloud account or organization id used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account id, Google Cloud ORG Id, or other unique identifier. | keyword |
cloud.account.name | The cloud account name or alias used to identify different entities in a multi-tenant environment. Examples: AWS account name, Google Cloud ORG display name. | keyword |
cloud.availability_zone | Availability zone in which this host is running. | keyword |
cloud.image.id | Image ID for the cloud instance. | keyword |
cloud.instance.id | Instance ID of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.instance.name | Instance name of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.machine.type | Machine type of the host machine. | keyword |
cloud.project.id | Name of the project in Google Cloud. | keyword |
cloud.provider | Name of the cloud provider. Example values are aws, azure, gcp, or digitalocean. | keyword |
cloud.region | Region in which this host is running. | keyword |
container.id | Unique container id. | keyword |
container.image.name | Name of the image the container was built on. | keyword |
container.labels | Image labels. | object |
container.name | Container name. | keyword |
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 |
error | These fields can represent errors of any kind. Use them for errors that happen while fetching events or in cases where the event itself contains an error. | group |
error.message | Error message. | match_only_text |
event.dataset | Event dataset | constant_keyword |
event.module | Event module | constant_keyword |
host.architecture | Operating system architecture. | keyword |
host.containerized | If the host is a container. | boolean |
host.domain | Name of the domain of which the host is a member. For example, on Windows this could be the host's Active Directory domain or NetBIOS domain name. For Linux this could be the domain of the host's LDAP provider. | keyword |
host.hostname | Hostname of the host. It normally contains what the hostname command returns on the host machine. | keyword |
host.id | Unique host id. As hostname is not always unique, use values that are meaningful in your environment. Example: The current usage of beat.name . | keyword |
host.ip | Host ip addresses. | ip |
host.mac | Host mac addresses. | keyword |
host.name | Name of the host. It can contain what hostname returns on Unix systems, the fully qualified domain name, or a name specified by the user. The sender decides which value to use. | keyword |
host.os.build | OS build information. | keyword |
host.os.codename | OS codename, if any. | keyword |
host.os.family | OS family (such as redhat, debian, freebsd, windows). | keyword |
host.os.kernel | Operating system kernel version as a raw string. | keyword |
host.os.name | Operating system name, without the version. | keyword |
host.os.name.text | Multi-field of host.os.name . | text |
host.os.platform | Operating system platform (such centos, ubuntu, windows). | keyword |
host.os.version | Operating system version as a raw string. | keyword |
host.type | Type of host. For Cloud providers this can be the machine type like t2.medium . If vm, this could be the container, for example, or other information meaningful in your environment. | keyword |
service.type | The type of the service data is collected from. The type can be used to group and correlate logs and metrics from one service type. Example: If logs or metrics are collected from Elasticsearch, service.type would be elasticsearch . | keyword |