From: jason taylor Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:20:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: metadata information update userguide meta X-Git-Tag: suricata-7.0.0-beta1~349 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9bd55ff81bfe04c436c73cc8dcad79710714a26b;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git doc: metadata information update userguide meta Signed-off-by: jason taylor --- diff --git a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst index 9149b11a86..62820fd878 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst @@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ expressed in the signature. The format of priority is:: metadata -------- -The metadata keyword allows additional, non-functional information to +The metadata keyword allows additional, non-functional, information to be added to the signature. While the format is free-form, it is -recommended to stick to key, value pairs as Suricata can include these +recommended to stick to `[key, value]` pairs as Suricata can include these in eve alerts. The format is:: metadata: key value;