host

noun

A default field that contains the hostname or IP address of the network device that generated an event. Each event has a host field. The indexer generates the host field at index time. The host field is widely used in searches, as a way to narrow the search results to events originating from a specific device.

For more information

In the User manual:

In the Getting Data In manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time