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Protocol-Specific Metricsedit

Packetbeat exposes per-protocol metrics under the HTTP monitoring endpoint. These metrics are exposed under the /inputs path. They can be used to observe the activity of Packetbeat for the monitored protocol.

TCP Metricsedit

Metric Description

device

Name of the device being monitored.

received_events_total

Number of packets processed.

received_bytes_total

Number of bytes processed.

tcp_overlaps

Number of packets shrunk due to overlap.

tcp.dropped_because_of_gaps

Number of packets dropped because of gaps.

arrival_period

Histogram of the elapsed time between packet arrivals.

processing_time

Histogram of the elapsed time between packet receipt and publication.

UDP Metricsedit

Metric Description

device

Name of the device being monitored.

received_events_total

Number of packets processed.

received_bytes_total

Number of bytes processed.

arrival_period

Histogram of the elapsed time between packet arrivals.

processing_time

Histogram of the elapsed time between packet receipt and publication.
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