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APM Transaction Metrics fields

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APM Transaction Metrics fields

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APM transaction metrics, and transaction metrics-specific properties, such as transaction.root.

processor.name

Processor name.

type: keyword

processor.event

Processor event.

type: keyword

timeseries.instance

Time series instance ID

type: keyword

timestamp.us

Timestamp of the event in microseconds since Unix epoch.

type: long

labels

A flat mapping of user-defined labels with string, boolean or number values.

type: object

ECS field.

metricset.name

Name of the set of metrics.

type: keyword

example: transaction

service

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Service fields.

service.name

Immutable name of the service emitting this event.

type: keyword

ECS field.

service.version

Version of the service emitting this event.

type: keyword

ECS field.

service.environment

Service environment.

type: keyword

service.node.name

Unique meaningful name of the service node.

type: keyword

ECS field.

service.language.name

Name of the programming language used.

type: keyword

service.language.version

Version of the programming language used.

type: keyword

service.runtime.name

Name of the runtime used.

type: keyword

service.runtime.version

Version of the runtime used.

type: keyword

service.framework.name

Name of the framework used.

type: keyword

service.framework.version

Version of the framework used.

type: keyword

transaction.id

The transaction ID.

type: keyword

ECS field.

transaction.sampled

Transactions that are sampled will include all available information. Transactions that are not sampled will not have spans or context.

type: boolean

transaction.type

Keyword of specific relevance in the service’s domain (eg. request, backgroundjob, etc)

type: keyword

transaction.name

Generic designation of a transaction in the scope of a single service (eg. GET /users/:id).

type: keyword

transaction.name.text

type: text

transaction.duration.count

Number of aggregated transactions.

type: long

transaction.duration.sum.us

Aggregated transaction duration, in microseconds.

type: long

self_time

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Portion of the transaction’s duration where no direct child was running

transaction.self_time.count

Number of aggregated transactions.

type: long

transaction.self_time.sum.us

Aggregated transaction duration, excluding the time periods where a direct child was running, in microseconds.

type: long

transaction.breakdown.count

Counter for collected breakdowns for the transaction

type: long

transaction.root

Identifies metrics for root transactions. This can be used for calculating metrics for traces.

type: boolean

transaction.result

The result of the transaction. HTTP status code for HTTP-related transactions.

type: keyword

span.type

Keyword of specific relevance in the service’s domain (eg: db.postgresql.query, template.erb, cache, etc).

type: keyword

span.subtype

A further sub-division of the type (e.g. postgresql, elasticsearch)

type: keyword

self_time

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Portion of the span’s duration where no direct child was running

span.self_time.count

Number of aggregated spans.

type: long

span.self_time.sum.us

Aggregated span duration, excluding the time periods where a direct child was running, in microseconds.

type: long

service

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Destination service context

span.destination.service.resource

Identifier for the destination service resource being operated on (e.g. http://elastic.co:80, elasticsearch, rabbitmq/queue_name)

type: keyword

agent.name

Name of the agent used.

type: keyword

ECS field.

agent.version

Version of the agent used.

type: keyword

ECS field.

agent.ephemeral_id

The Ephemeral ID identifies a running process.

type: keyword

ECS field.

container

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Container fields are used for meta information about the specific container that is the source of information. These fields help correlate data based containers from any runtime.

container.id

Unique container id.

type: keyword

ECS field.

kubernetes

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Kubernetes metadata reported by agents

kubernetes.namespace

Kubernetes namespace

type: keyword

kubernetes.node.name

Kubernetes node name

type: keyword

kubernetes.pod.name

Kubernetes pod name

type: keyword

kubernetes.pod.uid

Kubernetes Pod UID

type: keyword

network

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Optional network fields

connection

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Network connection details

network.connection.type

Network connection type, eg. "wifi", "cell"

type: keyword

network.connection.subtype

Detailed network connection sub-type, e.g. "LTE", "CDMA"

type: keyword

carrier

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Network operator

network.carrier.name

Carrier name, eg. Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc.

type: keyword

network.carrier.mcc

Mobile country code

type: keyword

network.carrier.mnc

Mobile network code

type: keyword

network.carrier.icc

ISO country code, eg. US

type: keyword

host

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Optional host fields.

host.architecture

The architecture of the host the event was recorded on.

type: keyword

ECS field.

host.hostname

The hostname of the host the event was recorded on.

type: keyword

ECS field.

host.name

Name of the host the event was recorded on. It can contain same information as host.hostname or a name specified by the user.

type: keyword

ECS field.

host.ip

IP of the host that records the event.

type: ip

ECS field.

os

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The OS fields contain information about the operating system.

host.os.platform

The platform of the host the event was recorded on.

type: keyword

ECS field.

process

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Information pertaining to the running process where the data was collected

process.args

Process arguments. May be filtered to protect sensitive information.

type: keyword

ECS field.

process.pid

Numeric process ID of the service process.

type: long

ECS field.

process.ppid

Numeric ID of the service’s parent process.

type: long

ECS field.

process.title

Service process title.

type: keyword

ECS field.

observer.listening

Address the server is listening on.

type: keyword

observer.hostname

Hostname of the APM Server.

type: keyword

ECS field.

observer.version

APM Server version.

type: keyword

ECS field.

observer.version_major

Major version number of the observer

type: byte

observer.type

The type will be set to apm-server.

type: keyword

ECS field.

observer.id

Unique identifier of the APM Server.

type: keyword

observer.ephemeral_id

Ephemeral identifier of the APM Server.

type: keyword

user.name

The username of the logged in user.

type: keyword

ECS field.

user.id

Identifier of the logged in user.

type: keyword

ECS field.

user.email

Email of the logged in user.

type: keyword

ECS field.

client.domain

Client domain.

type: keyword

ECS field.

client.ip

IP address of the client of a recorded event. This is typically obtained from a request’s X-Forwarded-For or the X-Real-IP header or falls back to a given configuration for remote address.

type: ip

ECS field.

client.port

Port of the client.

type: long

ECS field.

source.domain

Source domain.

type: keyword

ECS field.

source.ip

IP address of the source of a recorded event. This is typically obtained from a request’s X-Forwarded-For or the X-Real-IP header or falls back to a given configuration for remote address.

type: ip

ECS field.

source.port

Port of the source.

type: long

ECS field.

destination

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Destination fields describe details about the destination of a packet/event. Destination fields are usually populated in conjunction with source fields.

destination.address

Some event destination addresses are defined ambiguously. The event will sometimes list an IP, a domain or a unix socket. You should always store the raw address in the .address field. Then it should be duplicated to .ip or .domain, depending on which one it is.

type: keyword

ECS field.

destination.ip

IP addess of the destination. Can be one of multiple IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.

type: ip

ECS field.

destination.port

Port of the destination.

type: long

format: string

ECS field.

user_agent

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The user_agent fields normally come from a browser request. They often show up in web service logs coming from the parsed user agent string.

user_agent.original

Unparsed version of the user_agent.

type: keyword

example: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

ECS field.

user_agent.original.text

Software agent acting in behalf of a user, eg. a web browser / OS combination.

type: text

user_agent.name

Name of the user agent.

type: keyword

example: Safari

ECS field.

user_agent.version

Version of the user agent.

type: keyword

example: 12.0

ECS field.

device

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Information concerning the device.

user_agent.device.name

Name of the device.

type: keyword

example: iPhone

ECS field.

os

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The OS fields contain information about the operating system.

user_agent.os.platform

Operating system platform (such centos, ubuntu, windows).

type: keyword

example: darwin

ECS field.

user_agent.os.name

Operating system name, without the version.

type: keyword

example: Mac OS X

ECS field.

user_agent.os.full

Operating system name, including the version or code name.

type: keyword

example: Mac OS Mojave

ECS field.

user_agent.os.family

OS family (such as redhat, debian, freebsd, windows).

type: keyword

example: debian

ECS field.

user_agent.os.version

Operating system version as a raw string.

type: keyword

example: 10.14.1

ECS field.

user_agent.os.kernel

Operating system kernel version as a raw string.

type: keyword

example: 4.4.0-112-generic

ECS field.

experimental

Additional experimental data sent by the agents.

type: object

cloud

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Cloud metadata reported by agents

cloud.account.id

Cloud account ID

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.account.name

Cloud account name

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.availability_zone

Cloud availability zone name

type: keyword

example: us-east1-a

ECS field.

cloud.instance.id

Cloud instance/machine ID

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.instance.name

Cloud instance/machine name

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.machine.type

Cloud instance/machine type

type: keyword

example: t2.medium

ECS field.

cloud.project.id

Cloud project ID

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.project.name

Cloud project name

type: keyword

ECS field.

cloud.provider

Cloud provider name

type: keyword

example: gcp

ECS field.

cloud.region

Cloud region name

type: keyword

example: us-east1

ECS field.

cloud.service.name

Cloud service name, intended to distinguish services running on different platforms within a provider.

type: keyword

event.outcome

event.outcome simply denotes whether the event represents a success or a failure from the perspective of the entity that produced the event.

type: keyword

example: success

ECS field.

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