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-
-<refentry id="systemd.journal-fields">
-
- <refentryinfo>
- <title>systemd.journal-fields</title>
- <productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
- </refentryinfo>
-
- <refmeta>
- <refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
- </refmeta>
-
- <refnamediv>
- <refname>systemd.journal-fields</refname>
- <refpurpose>Special journal fields</refpurpose>
- </refnamediv>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Description</title>
-
- <para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment block in
- their syntax but with fields that can include binary data.
- Primarily, fields are formatted UTF-8 text strings, and binary
- formatting is used only where formatting as UTF-8 text strings
- makes little sense. New fields may freely be defined by
- applications, but a few fields have special meaning. All fields
- with special meanings are optional. In some cases, fields may
- appear more than once per entry.</para>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>User Journal Fields</title>
-
- <para>User fields are fields that are directly passed from clients
- and stored in the journal.</para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>MESSAGE=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The human-readable message string for this entry. This
- is supposed to be the primary text shown to the user. It is
- usually not translated (but might be in some cases), and is
- not supposed to be parsed for meta data.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>MESSAGE_ID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A 128-bit message identifier ID for recognizing
- certain message types, if this is desirable. This should
- contain a 128-bit ID formatted as a lower-case hexadecimal
- string, without any separating dashes or suchlike. This is
- recommended to be a UUID-compatible ID, but this is not
- enforced, and formatted differently. Developers can generate
- a new ID for this purpose with <command>journalctl
- <option>--new-id</option></command>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>PRIORITY=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>A priority value between 0 (<literal>emerg</literal>)
- and 7 (<literal>debug</literal>) formatted as a decimal
- string. This field is compatible with syslog's priority
- concept.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>CODE_FILE=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>CODE_LINE=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>CODE_FUNC=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The code location generating this message, if known.
- Contains the source filename, the line number and the
- function name.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>ERRNO=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The low-level Unix error number causing this entry, if
- any. Contains the numeric value of
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>errno</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- formatted as a decimal string.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>SYSLOG_FACILITY=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>SYSLOG_PID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Syslog compatibility fields containing the facility
- (formatted as decimal string), the identifier string (i.e.
- "tag"), and the client PID. (Note that the tag is usually
- derived from glibc's
- <varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname> variable,
- see
- <citerefentry project='die-net'><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Trusted Journal Fields</title>
-
- <para>Fields prefixed with an underscore are trusted fields, i.e.
- fields that are implicitly added by the journal and cannot be
- altered by client code.</para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_PID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_UID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_GID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The process, user, and group ID of the process the
- journal entry originates from formatted as a decimal
- string.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_COMM=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_EXE=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_CMDLINE=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The name, the executable path, and the command line of
- the process the journal entry originates from.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_CAP_EFFECTIVE=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The effective
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- of the process the journal entry originates from.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_AUDIT_SESSION=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_AUDIT_LOGINUID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The session and login UID of the process the journal
- entry originates from, as maintained by the kernel audit
- subsystem.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_SESSION=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>_SYSTEMD_SLICE=</varname></term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The control group path in the systemd hierarchy, the
- systemd session ID (if any), the systemd unit name (if any),
- the systemd user session unit name (if any), the owner UID
- of the systemd session (if any) and the systemd slice unit
- of the process the journal entry originates from.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_SELINUX_CONTEXT=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The SELinux security context (label) of the process
- the journal entry originates from.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The earliest trusted timestamp of the message, if any
- is known that is different from the reception time of the
- journal. This is the time in microseconds since the epoch
- UTC, formatted as a decimal string.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_BOOT_ID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The kernel boot ID for the boot the message was
- generated in, formatted as a 128-bit hexadecimal
- string.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_MACHINE_ID=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The machine ID of the originating host, as available
- in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_HOSTNAME=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The name of the originating host.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_TRANSPORT=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>How the entry was received by the journal service.
- Valid transports are:
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>driver</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for internally generated messages
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>syslog</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for those received via the local syslog socket
- with the syslog protocol
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>journal</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for those received via the native journal
- protocol
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>stdout</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for those read from a service's standard output
- or error output
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- <option>kernel</option>
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for those read from the kernel
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Kernel Journal Fields</title>
-
- <para>Kernel fields are fields that are used by messages
- originating in the kernel and stored in the journal.</para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_KERNEL_DEVICE=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The kernel device name. If the entry is associated to
- a block device, the major and minor of the device node,
- separated by <literal>:</literal> and prefixed by
- <literal>b</literal>. Similar for character devices but
- prefixed by <literal>c</literal>. For network devices, this
- is the interface index prefixed by <literal>n</literal>. For
- all other devices, this is the subsystem name prefixed by
- <literal>+</literal>, followed by <literal>:</literal>,
- followed by the kernel device name.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_KERNEL_SUBSYSTEM=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The kernel subsystem name.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_UDEV_SYSNAME=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The kernel device name as it shows up in the device
- tree below <filename>/sys</filename>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_UDEV_DEVNODE=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The device node path of this device in
- <filename>/dev</filename>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>_UDEV_DEVLINK=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Additional symlink names pointing to the device node
- in <filename>/dev</filename>. This field is frequently set
- more than once per entry.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Fields to log on behalf of a different program</title>
-
- <para>Fields in this section are used by programs to specify that
- they are logging on behalf of another program or unit.
- </para>
-
- <para>Fields used by the <command>systemd-coredump</command>
- coredump kernel helper:
- </para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>COREDUMP_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>COREDUMP_USER_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used to annotate messages containing coredumps from
- system and session units. See
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>Priviledged programs (currently UID 0) may attach
- <varname>OBJECT_PID=</varname> to a message. This will instruct
- <command>systemd-journald</command> to attach additional fields on
- behalf of the caller:</para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_PID=<replaceable>PID</replaceable></varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>PID of the program that this message pertains to.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_UID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_GID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_COMM=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_EXE=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_CMDLINE=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_AUDIT_SESSION=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_AUDIT_LOGINUID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_SYSTEMD_SESSION=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <term><varname>OBJECT_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>These are additional fields added automatically by
- <command>systemd-journald</command>. Their meaning is the
- same as
- <varname>_UID=</varname>,
- <varname>_GID=</varname>,
- <varname>_COMM=</varname>,
- <varname>_EXE=</varname>,
- <varname>_CMDLINE=</varname>,
- <varname>_AUDIT_SESSION=</varname>,
- <varname>_AUDIT_LOGINUID=</varname>,
- <varname>_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=</varname>,
- <varname>_SYSTEMD_SESSION=</varname>,
- <varname>_SYSTEMD_UNIT=</varname>,
- <varname>_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=</varname>, and
- <varname>_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=</varname>
- as described above, except that the process identified by
- <replaceable>PID</replaceable> is described, instead of the
- process which logged the message.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
-
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>Address Fields</title>
-
- <para>During serialization into external formats, such as the
- <ulink
- url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/export">Journal
- Export Format</ulink> or the <ulink
- url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/json">Journal
- JSON Format</ulink>, the addresses of journal entries are
- serialized into fields prefixed with double underscores. Note that
- these are not proper fields when stored in the journal but for
- addressing metadata of entries. They cannot be written as part of
- structured log entries via calls such as
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_send</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
- They may also not be used as matches for
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_add_match</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
-
- <variablelist class='journal-directives'>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>__CURSOR=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The cursor for the entry. A cursor is an opaque text
- string that uniquely describes the position of an entry in
- the journal and is portable across machines, platforms and
- journal files.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The wallclock time
- (<constant>CLOCK_REALTIME</constant>) at the point in time
- the entry was received by the journal, in microseconds since
- the epoch UTC, formatted as a decimal string. This has
- different properties from
- <literal>_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=</literal>, as it is
- usually a bit later but more likely to be monotonic.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><varname>__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP=</varname></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The monotonic time
- (<constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant>) at the point in time
- the entry was received by the journal in microseconds,
- formatted as a decimal string. To be useful as an address
- for the entry, this should be combined with the boot ID in
- <literal>_BOOT_ID=</literal>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </refsect1>
-
- <refsect1>
- <title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>coredumpctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
- </refsect1>
-
-</refentry>