System entropy metricset

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This is the entropy metricset of the module system. It collects the amount of available entropy in bits. On kernel versions greater than 2.6, entropy will be out of a total pool size of 4096.

This Metricset is available on:

  • linux

Fields

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For a description of each field in the metricset, see the exported fields section.

Here is an example document generated by this metricset:

{
    "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
    "event": {
        "dataset": "system.entropy",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "system"
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "entropy"
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "system"
    },
    "system": {
        "entropy": {
            "available_bits": 2801,
            "pct": 0.683837890625
        }
    }
}