Data Fields

This page references the various types of data fields utilized by the Elastic Stack in Security Onion.

The various fields types are described below.

Template files

Fields are mapped to their proper type using template files, found in /etc/logstash/. The current template files include:

logstash-template.json - mapping information for logs going into logstash-* indices
beats-template.json - mapping information for logs going into logstash-beats-* indices.
logstash-ossec-template.json - mapping information for logs going into logstash-ossec-* indices.