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23 | ||
24 | <refentry id="systemd.journal-fields"> | |
25 | ||
26 | <refentryinfo> | |
27 | <title>systemd.journal-fields</title> | |
28 | <productname>systemd</productname> | |
29 | ||
30 | <authorgroup> | |
31 | <author> | |
32 | <contrib>Developer</contrib> | |
33 | <firstname>Lennart</firstname> | |
34 | <surname>Poettering</surname> | |
35 | <email>lennart@poettering.net</email> | |
36 | </author> | |
37 | </authorgroup> | |
38 | </refentryinfo> | |
39 | ||
40 | <refmeta> | |
41 | <refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle> | |
42 | <manvolnum>7</manvolnum> | |
43 | </refmeta> | |
44 | ||
45 | <refnamediv> | |
46 | <refname>systemd.journal-fields</refname> | |
47 | <refpurpose>Special journal fields</refpurpose> | |
48 | </refnamediv> | |
49 | ||
50 | <refsect1> | |
51 | <title>Description</title> | |
52 | ||
53 | <para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment | |
54 | block in their syntax, however with fields that can | |
55 | include binary data. Primarily, fields are formatted | |
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56 | UTF-8 text strings, and binary formatting is used only |
57 | where formatting as UTF-8 text strings makes little | |
58 | sense. New fields may freely be defined by | |
59 | applications, but a few fields have special | |
60 | meaning. All fields with special meanings are | |
61 | optional.</para> | |
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62 | </refsect1> |
63 | ||
64 | <refsect1> | |
65 | <title>User Journal Fields</title> | |
66 | ||
67 | <para>User fields are fields that are directly passed | |
68 | from clients and stored in the journal.</para> | |
69 | ||
70 | <variablelist> | |
71 | <varlistentry> | |
72 | <term>MESSAGE=</term> | |
73 | <listitem> | |
74 | <para>The human readable | |
75 | message string for this | |
76 | entry. This is supposed to be | |
77 | the primary text shown to the | |
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78 | user. It is usually not |
79 | translated (but might be in | |
80 | some cases), and is not | |
81 | supposed to be parsed for meta | |
82 | data.</para> | |
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83 | </listitem> |
84 | </varlistentry> | |
85 | ||
86 | <varlistentry> | |
87 | <term>MESSAGE_ID=</term> | |
88 | <listitem> | |
89 | <para>A 128bit message | |
90 | identifier ID for recognizing | |
91 | certain message types, if this | |
92 | is desirable. This should | |
93 | contain a 128bit id formatted | |
94 | as lower-case hexadecimal | |
95 | string, without any separating | |
96 | dashes or suchlike. This is | |
97 | recommended to be a UUID | |
98 | compatible ID, but this is not | |
99 | enforced, and formatted | |
100 | differently. Developers can | |
101 | generate a new ID for this | |
102 | purpose with | |
103 | <command>journalctl | |
104 | --new-id</command>.</para> | |
105 | </listitem> | |
106 | </varlistentry> | |
107 | ||
108 | <varlistentry> | |
109 | <term>PRIORITY=</term> | |
110 | <listitem> | |
111 | <para>A priority value between | |
112 | 0 (<literal>emerg</literal>) | |
113 | and 7 | |
114 | (<literal>debug</literal>) | |
115 | formatted as decimal | |
116 | string. This field is | |
117 | compatible with syslog's | |
118 | priority concept.</para> | |
119 | </listitem> | |
120 | </varlistentry> | |
121 | ||
122 | <varlistentry> | |
123 | <term>CODE_FILE=</term> | |
124 | <term>CODE_LINE=</term> | |
125 | <term>CODE_FUNC=</term> | |
126 | <listitem> | |
127 | <para>The code location | |
128 | generating this message, if | |
129 | known. Contains the source | |
130 | file name, the line number and | |
131 | the function name.</para> | |
132 | </listitem> | |
133 | </varlistentry> | |
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134 | |
135 | <varlistentry> | |
136 | <term>ERRNO=</term> | |
137 | <listitem> | |
138 | <para>The low-level Unix error | |
139 | number causing this entry, if | |
140 | any. Contains the numeric | |
141 | value of | |
142 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> | |
143 | formatted as decimal | |
144 | string.</para> | |
145 | </listitem> | |
146 | </varlistentry> | |
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147 | |
148 | <varlistentry> | |
149 | <term>SYSLOG_FACILITY=</term> | |
150 | <term>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=</term> | |
151 | <term>SYSLOG_PID=</term> | |
152 | <listitem> | |
153 | <para>Syslog compatibility | |
154 | fields containing the facility | |
155 | (formatted as decimal string), | |
156 | the identifier string | |
157 | (i.e. "tag"), and the client | |
158 | PID.</para> | |
159 | </listitem> | |
160 | ||
161 | </varlistentry> | |
162 | </variablelist> | |
163 | </refsect1> | |
164 | ||
165 | <refsect1> | |
166 | <title>Trusted Journal Fields</title> | |
167 | ||
168 | <para>Fields prefixed with an underscore are trusted | |
169 | fields, i.e. fields that are implicitly added by the | |
170 | journal and cannot be altered by client code.</para> | |
171 | ||
172 | <variablelist> | |
173 | <varlistentry> | |
174 | <term>_PID=</term> | |
175 | <term>_UID=</term> | |
176 | <term>_GID=</term> | |
177 | <listitem> | |
178 | <para>The process, user and | |
179 | group ID of the process the | |
180 | journal entry originates from | |
181 | formatted as decimal | |
182 | string.</para> | |
183 | </listitem> | |
184 | </varlistentry> | |
185 | ||
186 | <varlistentry> | |
187 | <term>_COMM=</term> | |
188 | <term>_EXE=</term> | |
189 | <term>_CMDLINE=</term> | |
190 | <listitem> | |
191 | <para>The name, the executable | |
192 | path and the command line of | |
193 | the process the journal entry | |
194 | originates from.</para> | |
195 | </listitem> | |
196 | </varlistentry> | |
197 | ||
198 | <varlistentry> | |
199 | <term>_AUDIT_SESSION=</term> | |
200 | <term>_AUDIT_LOGINUID=</term> | |
201 | <listitem> | |
202 | <para>The session and login | |
203 | UID of the process the journal | |
204 | entry originates from, as | |
205 | maintained by the kernel audit | |
206 | subsystem.</para> | |
207 | </listitem> | |
208 | </varlistentry> | |
209 | ||
210 | <varlistentry> | |
211 | <term>_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=</term> | |
212 | <term>_SYSTEMD_SESSION=</term> | |
213 | <term>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</term> | |
214 | <term>_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=</term> | |
215 | ||
216 | <listitem> | |
217 | <para>The contol group path in | |
218 | the systemd hierarchy, the | |
219 | systemd session ID (if any), | |
220 | the systemd unit name (if any) | |
221 | and the owner UID of the | |
222 | systemd session (if any) of | |
223 | the process the journal entry | |
224 | originates from.</para> | |
225 | </listitem> | |
226 | </varlistentry> | |
227 | ||
228 | <varlistentry> | |
229 | <term>_SELINUX_CONTEXT=</term> | |
230 | <listitem> | |
231 | <para>The SELinux security | |
232 | context of the process the | |
233 | journal entry originates | |
234 | from.</para> | |
235 | </listitem> | |
236 | </varlistentry> | |
237 | ||
238 | <varlistentry> | |
239 | <term>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
240 | <listitem> | |
241 | <para>The earliest trusted | |
242 | timestamp of the message, if | |
243 | any is known that is different | |
244 | from the reception time of the | |
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245 | journal. This is the time in |
246 | usec since the epoch UTC | |
247 | formatted as decimal | |
248 | string.</para> | |
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249 | </listitem> |
250 | </varlistentry> | |
251 | ||
252 | <varlistentry> | |
253 | <term>_BOOT_ID=</term> | |
254 | <listitem> | |
255 | <para>The kernel boot ID for | |
256 | the boot the message was | |
257 | generated in, formatted as | |
258 | 128bit hexadecimal | |
259 | string.</para> | |
260 | </listitem> | |
261 | </varlistentry> | |
262 | ||
263 | <varlistentry> | |
264 | <term>_MACHINE_ID=</term> | |
265 | <listitem> | |
266 | <para>The machine ID of the | |
267 | originating host, as available | |
268 | in | |
269 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para> | |
270 | </listitem> | |
271 | </varlistentry> | |
272 | ||
273 | <varlistentry> | |
274 | <term>_HOSTNAME=</term> | |
275 | <listitem> | |
276 | <para>The name of the | |
277 | originating host.</para> | |
278 | </listitem> | |
279 | </varlistentry> | |
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280 | |
281 | <varlistentry> | |
282 | <term>_TRANSPORT=</term> | |
283 | <listitem> | |
284 | <para>How the entry was | |
285 | received by the journal | |
286 | service. One of | |
287 | <literal>driver</literal>, | |
288 | <literal>syslog</literal>, | |
289 | <literal>journal</literal>, | |
290 | <literal>stdout</literal>, | |
291 | <literal>kernel</literal> for | |
292 | internally generated messages, | |
293 | for those received via the | |
294 | local syslog socket with the | |
295 | syslog protocol, for those | |
296 | received via the native | |
297 | journal protocol, for the | |
298 | those read from a services' | |
299 | standard output or error | |
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300 | output, and for those read |
301 | from the kernel, resp. | |
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302 | </para> |
303 | </listitem> | |
304 | </varlistentry> | |
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305 | </variablelist> |
306 | </refsect1> | |
307 | ||
308 | <refsect1> | |
309 | <title>Address Fields</title> | |
310 | ||
311 | <para>During serialization into external formats the | |
312 | addresses of journal entries are serialized into | |
313 | fields prefixed with double underscores. Note that | |
314 | these aren't proper fields when stored in the journal, | |
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315 | but addressing meta data of entries. They cannot be |
316 | written as part of structured log entries via calls | |
317 | such as | |
318 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_send</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. They | |
319 | may also not be used as matches for | |
320 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_add_match</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry></para> | |
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321 | |
322 | <variablelist> | |
323 | <varlistentry> | |
324 | <term>__CURSOR=</term> | |
325 | <listitem> | |
326 | <para>The cursor for the | |
327 | entry. A cursor is an opaque | |
328 | text string that uniquely | |
329 | describes the position of an | |
330 | entry in the journal and is | |
331 | portable across machines, | |
332 | platforms and journal | |
333 | files.</para> | |
334 | </listitem> | |
335 | </varlistentry> | |
336 | ||
337 | <varlistentry> | |
338 | <term>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
339 | <listitem> | |
340 | <para>The wallclock time | |
341 | (CLOCK_REALTIME) at the point | |
342 | in time the entry was received | |
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343 | by the journal, in usec since |
344 | the epoch UTC formatted as | |
345 | decimal string. This has | |
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346 | different properties from |
347 | <literal>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</literal> | |
348 | as it is usually a bit later | |
349 | but more likely to be | |
350 | monotonic.</para> | |
351 | </listitem> | |
352 | </varlistentry> | |
353 | ||
354 | <varlistentry> | |
355 | <term>__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP=</term> | |
356 | <listitem> | |
357 | <para>The monotonic time | |
358 | (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) at the point | |
359 | in time the entry was received | |
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360 | by the journal in usec |
361 | formatted as decimal | |
362 | string. To be useful as an | |
363 | address for the entry this | |
364 | should be combined with with | |
365 | boot ID in | |
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366 | <literal>_BOOT_ID=</literal>.</para> |
367 | </listitem> | |
368 | </varlistentry> | |
369 | </variablelist> | |
370 | </refsect1> | |
371 | ||
372 | <refsect1> | |
373 | <title>See Also</title> | |
374 | <para> | |
375 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
376 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, | |
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cb07866b | 378 | <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> |
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379 | </para> |
380 | </refsect1> | |
381 | ||
382 | </refentry> |