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Last updated: Mar 20th, 2023

Kubernetes Event Metrics

Collect events related metrics from Kubernetes API server with Elastic Agent.

What is an Elastic integration?

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.

Metrics

event

This is the event dataset of the Kubernetes package. It collects Kubernetes events related metrics.

If Leader Election is activated (default behaviour) only the elastic agent which holds the leadership lock will retrieve events related metrics. This is relevant in multi-node kubernetes cluster and prevents duplicate data.

An example event for event looks as following:

{
    "@timestamp": "2020-06-25T12:30:27.575Z",
    "metricset": {
        "name": "event"
    },
    "agent": {
        "type": "metricbeat",
        "version": "8.0.0",
        "ephemeral_id": "644323b5-5d6a-4dfb-92dd-35ca602db487",
        "id": "a6147a6e-6626-4a84-9907-f372f6c61eee",
        "name": "agent-ingest-management-clusterscope-674dbb75df-rp8cc"
    },
    "ecs": {
        "version": "1.5.0"
    },
    "event": {
        "dataset": "kubernetes.event",
        "module": "kubernetes"
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "kubernetes"
    },
    "kubernetes": {
        "event": {
            "metadata": {
                "uid": "604e39e0-862f-4615-9cec-8cb62299dea3",
                "resource_version": "485630",
                "timestamp": {
                    "created": "2020-06-25T07:20:25.000Z"
                },
                "name": "monitor.161bb862545e3099",
                "namespace": "beats",
                "self_link": "/api/v1/namespaces/beats/events/monitor.161bb862545e3099",
                "generate_name": ""
            },
            "timestamp": {
                "first_occurrence": "2020-06-25T07:20:25.000Z",
                "last_occurrence": "2020-06-25T12:30:27.000Z"
            },
            "message": "Failed to find referenced backend beats/monitor: Elasticsearch.elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co \"monitor\" not found",
            "reason": "AssociationError",
            "type": "Warning",
            "count": 1861,
            "source": {
                "host": "",
                "component": "kibana-association-controller"
            },
            "involved_object": {
                "api_version": "kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1",
                "resource_version": "101842",
                "name": "monitor",
                "kind": "Kibana",
                "uid": "45a19de5-5eef-4090-a2d3-dbceb0a28af8"
            }
        }
    },
    "host": {
        "id": "b0e83d397c054b8a99a431072fe4617b",
        "containerized": false,
        "ip": [
            "172.17.0.11"
        ],
        "mac": [
            "02:42:ac:11:00:0b"
        ],
        "hostname": "agent-ingest-management-clusterscope-674dbb75df-rp8cc",
        "name": "agent-ingest-management-clusterscope-674dbb75df-rp8cc",
        "architecture": "x86_64",
        "os": {
            "platform": "centos",
            "version": "7 (Core)",
            "family": "redhat",
            "name": "CentOS Linux",
            "kernel": "4.19.81",
            "codename": "Core"
        }
    }
}

Exported fields

FieldDescriptionTypeMetric Type
@timestamp
Event timestamp.
date
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
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
kubernetes.annotations.*
Kubernetes annotations map
object
kubernetes.container.image
Kubernetes container image
keyword
kubernetes.container.name
Kubernetes container name
keyword
kubernetes.deployment.name
Kubernetes deployment name
keyword
kubernetes.event.count
Count field records the number of times the particular event has occurred
long
counter
kubernetes.event.involved_object.api_version
API version of the object
keyword
kubernetes.event.involved_object.kind
API kind of the object
keyword
kubernetes.event.involved_object.name
name of the object
keyword
kubernetes.event.involved_object.resource_version
resource version of the object
keyword
kubernetes.event.involved_object.uid
uid version of the object
keyword
kubernetes.event.message
Message recorded for the given event
text
kubernetes.event.metadata.generate_name
Generate name of the event
keyword
kubernetes.event.metadata.name
Name of the event
keyword
kubernetes.event.metadata.namespace
Namespace in which event was generated
keyword
kubernetes.event.metadata.resource_version
Version of the event resource
keyword
kubernetes.event.metadata.self_link
URL representing the event
keyword
kubernetes.event.metadata.timestamp.created
Timestamp of creation of the given event
date
kubernetes.event.metadata.uid
Unique identifier to the event object
keyword
kubernetes.event.reason
Reason recorded for the given event
keyword
kubernetes.event.source.component
Component from which the event is generated
keyword
kubernetes.event.source.host
Node name on which the event is generated
keyword
kubernetes.event.timestamp.first_occurrence
Timestamp of first occurrence of event
date
kubernetes.event.timestamp.last_occurrence
Timestamp of last occurrence of event
date
kubernetes.event.type
Type of the given event
keyword
kubernetes.labels.*
Kubernetes labels map
object
kubernetes.namespace
Kubernetes namespace
keyword
kubernetes.node.hostname
Kubernetes hostname as reported by the node’s kernel
keyword
kubernetes.node.name
Kubernetes node name
keyword
kubernetes.pod.ip
Kubernetes pod IP
ip
kubernetes.pod.name
Kubernetes pod name
keyword
kubernetes.pod.uid
Kubernetes pod UID
keyword
kubernetes.replicaset.name
Kubernetes replicaset name
keyword
kubernetes.selectors.*
Kubernetes Service selectors map
object
kubernetes.statefulset.name
Kubernetes statefulset name
keyword
orchestrator.cluster.name
Name of the cluster.
keyword
orchestrator.cluster.url
URL of the API used to manage the cluster.
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