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Event fields

These top-level fields describe when the event happened, its message, and its severity.

FieldTypeUnitMeaning
tstringtimestampWhen the thing being reported was observed. For an occurrence this is when the fact happened, not when the agent found it.
messagestringA one-line human summary of this event's row data. Not a hash and not the payload: the structured readings ride sparklogs.data.<topic>.
severitystringThe grade this event ships at.
native_severitystringThe grade the agent arrived at before its reason's ceiling reduced it. Present only when a ceiling actually clamped the event, which is rare; its presence is what says a clamp happened.
__autoextract_disable_extract_fieldsboolTells the pipeline not to mine custom fields out of the message text. The readings are already structured, so extraction could only invent duplicates of them.