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Environmental Fieldsedit
These fields contain data about the environment in which the transaction was captured.
beat.nameedit
Name of the Beat sending the events. If the shipper name is set in the configuration file, then that value is used. If it is not set, the hostname is used.
beat.hostnameedit
The hostname as returned by the operating system on which the Beat is running.
serveredit
The name of the server that served the transaction.
client_serveredit
The name of the server that initiated the transaction.
serviceedit
The name of the logical service that served the transaction.
client_serviceedit
The name of the logical service that initiated the transaction.
real_ipedit
format: Dotted notation.
If the server initiating the transaction is a proxy, this field contains the original client IP address. For HTTP, for example, the IP address extracted from a configurable HTTP header, by default X-Forwarded-For.
Unless this field is disabled, it always has a value, and it matches the client_ip for non proxy clients.
client_locationedit
type: geo_point
example: 40.715, -74.011
The GeoIP location of the real_ip IP address or of the client_ip address if the real_ip is disabled. The field is a string containing the latitude and longitude separated by a comma.
client_portedit
format: dotted notation.
The layer 4 port of the process that initiated the transaction.
transportedit
example: udp
The transport protocol used for the transaction. If not specified, then tcp is assumed.
procedit
The name of the process that served the transaction.
client_procedit
The name of the process that initiated the transaction.
releaseedit
The software release of the service serving the transaction. This can be the commit id or a semantic version.
tagsedit
Arbitrary tags that can be set per Beat and per transaction type.