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Example metric documents
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Example metric documents
editThis example shows what metric documents can look like when indexed in Elasticsearch:
[
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:41.364Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.6.0"
},
"event": {
"ingested": "2020-04-22T14:55:05.425020Z"
},
"go": {
"memstats": {
"heap": {
"sys": {
"bytes": 6520832.0
}
}
}
},
"host": {
"ip": "127.0.0.1"
},
"labels": {
"tag1": "one",
"tag2": 2
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "8785cbe1-7f89-4279-84c2-6c33979531fb",
"hostname": "ix.lan",
"id": "b0cfe4b7-76c9-4159-95ff-e558db368cbe",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"process": {
"pid": 1234
},
"processor": {
"event": "metric",
"name": "metric"
},
"service": {
"language": {
"name": "ecmascript"
},
"name": "1234_service-12a3",
"node": {
"name": "node-1"
}
},
"user": {
"email": "user@mail.com",
"id": "axb123hg",
"name": "logged-in-user"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:41.366Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"ecs": {
"version": "1.6.0"
},
"event": {
"ingested": "2020-09-08T15:57:10.396695Z"
},
"host": {
"ip": "127.0.0.1"
},
"labels": {
"tag1": "one",
"tag2": 2
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "2f30050f-81e6-491a-a54f-e7d94eec17b5",
"hostname": "simmac.net",
"id": "02f6cb38-c1ce-4382-9478-4c8b4cdbda9c",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"process": {
"pid": 1234
},
"processor": {
"event": "metric",
"name": "metric"
},
"service": {
"language": {
"name": "ecmascript"
},
"name": "1234_service-12a3",
"node": {
"name": "node-1"
}
},
"system": {
"process": {
"cgroup": {
"memory": {
"mem": {
"limit": {
"bytes": 2048
},
"usage": {
"bytes": 1024
}
}
}
}
}
},
"user": {
"email": "user@mail.com",
"id": "axb123hg",
"name": "logged-in-user"
}
},
{
"@timestamp": "2017-05-30T18:53:42.281Z",
"agent": {
"name": "elastic-node",
"version": "3.14.0"
},
"byte_counter": 1,
"dotted": {
"float": {
"gauge": 6.12
}
},
"double_gauge": 3.141592653589793,
"ecs": {
"version": "1.6.0"
},
"event": {
"ingested": "2020-04-22T14:55:05.368308Z"
},
"float_gauge": 9.16,
"host": {
"ip": "127.0.0.1"
},
"integer_gauge": 42767,
"labels": {
"code": 200,
"some": "abc",
"success": true,
"tag1": "one",
"tag2": 2
},
"long_gauge": 3147483648.0,
"negative": {
"d": {
"o": {
"t": {
"t": {
"e": {
"d": -1022
}
}
}
}
}
},
"observer": {
"ephemeral_id": "8785cbe1-7f89-4279-84c2-6c33979531fb",
"hostname": "ix.lan",
"id": "b0cfe4b7-76c9-4159-95ff-e558db368cbe",
"type": "apm-server",
"version": "8.0.0",
"version_major": 8
},
"process": {
"pid": 1234
},
"processor": {
"event": "metric",
"name": "metric"
},
"service": {
"language": {
"name": "ecmascript"
},
"name": "1234_service-12a3",
"node": {
"name": "node-1"
}
},
"short_counter": 227,
"span": {
"self_time": {
"count": 1,
"sum": {
"us": 633.288
}
},
"subtype": "mysql",
"type": "db"
},
"transaction": {
"breakdown": {
"count": 12
},
"duration": {
"count": 2,
"sum": {
"us": 12
}
},
"name": "GET /",
"self_time": {
"count": 2,
"sum": {
"us": 10
}
},
"type": "request"
},
"user": {
"email": "user@mail.com",
"id": "axb123hg",
"name": "logged-in-user"
}
}
]