Translate SID

The translate_sid processor translates a Windows security identifier (SID) into an account name. It retrieves the name of the account associated with the SID, the first domain on which the SID is found, and the type of account. This is only available on Windows.

Every account on a network is issued a unique SID when the account is first created. Internal processes in Windows refer to an account’s SID rather than the account’s user or group name, and these values sometimes appear in logs.

If the SID is invalid (malformed) or does not map to any account on the local system or domain, the processor will return an error unless ignore_failure is set.

Example

		- translate_sid:
    field: winlog.event_data.MemberSid
    account_name_target: user.name
    domain_target: user.domain
    ignore_missing: true
    ignore_failure: true

	

Configuration settings

Note

Elastic Agent processors execute before ingest pipelines, which means that your processor configurations cannot refer to fields that are created by ingest pipelines or Logstash. For more limitations, refer to What are some limitations of using processors?

Name	Required	Default	Description
`field`	Yes		Source field containing a Windows security identifier (SID).
`account_name_target`	Yes*		Target field for the account name value.
`account_type_target`	Yes*		Target field for the account type value.
`domain_target`	Yes*		Target field for the domain value.
`ignore_missing`	No	`false`	Ignore errors when the source field is missing.
`ignore_failure`	No	`false`	Ignore all errors produced by the processor.

At least one of account_name_target, account_type_target, and domain_target must be configured.