Metrics fields reference

The following sections list the required fields the Metrics app uses to display data. Some of the fields listed are ECS fields.

The fields are grouped in the following categories:

To display data properly in some views, the event.dataset field is required. This field is a combination of metricset.module, which is the Metricbeat module name, and metricset.name, which is the metricset name.

To determine the optimal time interval for each metric, all of the charts use the metricset.period. If metricset.period is not available then it falls back to 1 minute intervals.