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Linux conntrack metricset

The conntrack module reports on performance counters for the linux connection tracking component of netfilter. Conntrack uses a hash table to track the state of network connections.

Fields

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": "linux.conntrack",
        "duration": 115000,
        "module": "linux"
    },
    "linux": {
        "conntrack": {
            "summary": {
                "drop": 0,
                "early_drop": 0,
                "entries": 16,
                "found": 0,
                "ignore": 3271028,
                "insert_failed": 0,
                "invalid": 122,
                "search_restart": 3
            }
        }
    },
    "metricset": {
        "name": "conntrack",
        "period": 10000
    },
    "service": {
        "type": "linux"
    }
}