All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file based on the Keep a Changelog Standard. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- Add generated source code for Go. #249
- Translate the documentation from README.md, to the main website. #266, #334, #400, #430, #437
- New generator that supports reusable fields, for files based on ECS. It generates schema.csv, Elasticsearch 6 and 7 templates, and field documentation for the main website. #336
- Generator for the asciidoc rendering of field definitions. #347
- Generator for the Beats fields.ecs.yml file. #379
- Remove many legacy generated files. #399
- Specify static output format for event.duration. #425
- Format port numbers and numeric IDs as strings. #454
- Add example for
process.pid
andprocess.ppid
. #464, #470
- Remove the
user.group
keyword
field, introduced in #204. Instead, thegroup
field set can be nested atuser.group
. #308
- Field set name "group" was being used as a leaf field at
user.group
, instead of being a nesting of the field set. This goes against a driving principle of ECS, and has been corrected. #308 - Replaced incorrect examples in
cloud.provider
. #330, #348 - Changed the
url.port
type tolong
. #339
- Added pointer in description of
http
field set tourl
field set. #330 - Added an optional short field description. #330
- Clarified the definition of the host fields #325
- Clarified the difference between
@timestamp
andevent.created
. #329 - Make phrasing of lowercasing directive more relevant, no matter where it's shown. #332
- Specify the
object_type
for fieldlabels
. #331 - Loosen up definition of
geo
field set. Not necessarily geo-ip based, sincegeo.name
. #333 - Clarified guidelines on ID fields. #349
- Changed
device.*
fields toobserver.*
fields to eliminate user confusion. #238 - Rename
network.total.bytes
tonetwork.bytes
andnetwork.total.packets
tonetwork.packets
. #179 - Remove
network.inbound.bytes
,network.inbound.packets
,network.outbound.bytes
andnetwork.outbound.packets
. #179 - Changed the
event.type
definition to be only reserved. #242
- Fix obvious mistake in the definition of "source", where it said "destination" instead of "source". #211
- Add
host.name
field and clarify usage ofhost.hostname
. #187 - Add
event.start
andevent.end
date fields. #185 - Add
process.thread.id
field. #200 - Add
host.name
field and clarify usage ofhost.hostname
. - Add
event.start
andevent.end
date fields. - Create new
related
field set withrelated.ip
. #206 - Add
user.group
field. #204 - Create new
group
field set withgroup.id
andgroup.name
. #203 - Add
url.full
field. #207 - Add
process.executable
field. #209 - Add
process.working_directory
andprocess.start
. #215 - Reintroduce
http
. #237- Move
http.response.body
tohttp.response.body.content
. #239 - Add
http.request.body.content
. #239 - Add HTTP size metric fields. #239
- Move
- Add
user.full_name
field. #201 - Add
network.community_id
field. #208 - Add fields
geo.country_name
andgeo.region_iso_code
. #214 - Add
event.kind
andevent.outcome
. #242 - Add
client
andserver
objects and fields. #236 - Reintroduce a streamlined
user_agent
field set. #240, #262 - Add
geo.name
for ad hoc location names. #248 - Add
event.timezone
to allow for proper interpretation of incomplete timestamps. #258 - Add fields
source.address
,destination.address
,client.address
, andserver.address
. #247 - Add
os.full
to capture full OS name, including version. #259 - Add generated source code for Go. #249
- Improved the definition of the file fields #196
- Improved the definition of the agent fields #192
- Improve definition of events, logs, and metrics in event section #194
- Improved the definition of network fields in intro section #197
- Improved the definition of host fields #195
- Improved the definitions for
event.category
andevent.action
. #242 - Clarify the semantics of
network.direction
. #212 - Add
source.bytes
,source.packets
,destination.bytes
anddestination.packets
. #179 - Add a readme section to declare some top level field sets are reserved for future use. #257
- Clarify that
network.transport
,network.type
,network.application
, andnetwork.protocol
must be lowercase. #251 - Clarify that
http.request.method
must be lowercase. #251 - Clarify that source/destination should be filled, even if client/server is being used. #265
- Change structure of URL. #7
- Rename
url.href
multi_field
. #18 - Rename
geoip.*
togeo
. #58 - Rename log.message to log.original. #106
- Rename
event.raw
toevent.original
. #107 - Rename
user_agent.raw
touser_agent.original
and make it a keyword. #107 - Rename
file.path.raw
tofile.path.keyword
,file.target_path.raw
tofile.target_path.keyword
,url.href.raw
tourl.href.keyword
,url.path.raw
tourl.path.keyword
,url.query.raw
tourl.query.keyword
, andnetwork.name.raw
tonetwork.name.keyword
. #103 - Remove
log.offset
andlog.line
as too specific for ECS. #131 - Remove top level objects
kubernetes
andtls
. #132 - Remove
*.timezone.offset.sec
fields as too specific for ECS at the moment. #134 - Make the following fields keyword: device.vendor, file.path, file.target_path, http.response.body, network.name, organization.name, url.href, url.path, url.query, user_agent.original
- Rename
url.host.name
tourl.hostname
to better align with industry convention. #147 - Make the following fields keyword: device.vendor, file.path, file.target_path, http.response.body, network.name, organization.name, url.href, url.path, url.query, user_agent.original. #137
- Only two fields using
text
indexing at this time aremessage
anderror.message
.
- Only two fields using
- Rename
host.name
tohost.hostname
to better align with industry convention. #144 - Update definition of
service.type
andservice.name
. - Redefine purpose of
agent.name
field to be user defined field. - Rename
url.href
tourl.original
. - Remove
source.subdomain
anddestination.subdomain
fields. - Rename
event.version
toecs.version
. #169 - Remove the
http
field set temporarily. #171 - Remove the
user_agent
field set temporarily. #172 - Rename
url.hostname
tourl.domain
. #175 - Remove
source.hostname
anddestination.hostname
. #175
- Add
network.total.packets
andnetwork.total.bytes
field. PR#2 - Add
event.action
field. #21 - Add
network.name
, to track network names in the monitoring pipeline. #25 - Adds cloud.account.id for top level organizational level. #11
- Add
http.response.status_code
andhttp.response.body
fields. #4 - Add fields for Operating System data. #5
- Add
log.message
. #3 - Add http.request.method and http.version
- Add
host.os.kernel
containing the OS kernel version. #60 - Add
agent.type
field. - Add
http.request.referrer
field. #164 - Add
network.type
,network.iana_number
,network.transport
andnetwork.application
. #81 and #170
- Remove duplicate definitions of the reuseable
os
field set fromhost.os
anduser_agent.os
. #168
Initial draft release