Data Source: Cisco Isovalent Process Connect

Description

Captures detailed process connection events—including source and destination process metadata, execution lineage (ancestry), and Kubernetes workload context—generated by Cisco Isovalent instrumentation. Enables technical analysis of inter-process communications, container-level activity, and workload-specific network flows in cloud-native environments.

Details

Property Value
Source not_applicable
Sourcetype cisco:isovalent:processConnect

Supported Apps

Event Fields

+ Fields
  <span class="pill kill-chain">_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">app</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">cluster_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">container_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dest</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dest_ip</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">dest_port</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">eventtype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">host</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">index</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">linecount</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.alpha.eksctl.io/cluster-name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.alpha.eksctl.io/nodegroup-name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.beta.kubernetes.io/arch</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.beta.kubernetes.io/os</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/capacityType</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup-image</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateId</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateVersion</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.k8s.io/cloud-provider-aws</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.kubernetes.io/arch</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.kubernetes.io/hostname</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.kubernetes.io/os</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.node.kubernetes.io/instance-type</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.topology.k8s.aws/zone-id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.topology.kubernetes.io/region</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_labels.topology.kubernetes.io/zone</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">node_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">pod_image_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">pod_name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">pod_namespace</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_ip</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.namespace</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/component</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/instance</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/managed-by</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/part-of</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/version</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/component</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.helm.sh/chart</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.k8s-app</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.pod_labels.pod-template-hash</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.workload</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_pod.workload_kind</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.destination_port</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.arguments</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.auid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.binary</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.cwd</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.docker</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.exec_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.flags</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.in_init_tree</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.parent_exec_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.image.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.image.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.pid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.container.start_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.namespace</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/instance</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.pod_labels.controller-revision-hash</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.pod_labels.k8s-app</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.pod_labels.pod-template-generation</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.workload</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.pod.workload_kind</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.start_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.tid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.parent.uid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.arguments</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.auid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.binary</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.cwd</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.docker</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.exec_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.flags</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.in_init_tree</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.parent_exec_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.image.id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.image.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.maybe_exec_probe</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.pid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.container.start_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.namespace</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/instance</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.app.kubernetes.io/name</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.controller-revision-hash</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.eks.amazonaws.com/component</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.k8s-app</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.pod-template-generation</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.pod_labels.pod-template-hash</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.workload</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.pod.workload_kind</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.start_time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.tid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.process.uid</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.protocol</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.sock_cookie</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.source_ip</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_connect.source_port</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">process_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">punct</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">session_id</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">source</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">sourcetype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">splunk_server</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">splunk_server_group</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src_ip</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">src_port</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tag</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tag::app</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">tag::eventtype</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">time</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">transport</span>
  
  <span class="pill kill-chain">vendor_product</span>
  
</div>

Example Log

1{"process_connect":{"process":{"exec_id":"aXAtMTkyLTE2OC04OS02NC51cy13ZXN0LTIuY29tcHV0ZS5pbnRlcm5hbDoxMjQ5MDAwMDAwMDoxNjQ1","pid":1645,"uid":0,"cwd":"/","binary":"/usr/bin/kubelet","arguments":"--config-dir=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/config.json.d --kubeconfig=/var/lib/kubelet/kubeconfig --image-credential-provider-bin-dir=/etc/eks/image-credential-provider --image-credential-provider-config=/etc/eks/image-credential-provider/config.json --node-ip=192.168.89.64 --cloud-provider=external --hostname-override=ip-192-168-89-64.us-west-2.compute.internal --config=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet/config.json --node-labels=eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateVersion=1,alpha.eksctl.io/cluster-name=k8s-goat-cluster,alpha.eksctl.io/nodegroup-name=ng-a99d40b1,eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup-image=ami-0339636baccc3c183,eks.amazonaws.com/capacityType=ON_DEMAND,eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup=ng-a99d40b1,eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateId=lt-0da0169006f2a7c39","flags":"procFS auid rootcwd","start_time":"2025-09-05T19:07:18.923218536Z","auid":4294967295,"parent_exec_id":"aXAtMTkyLTE2OC04OS02NC51cy13ZXN0LTIuY29tcHV0ZS5pbnRlcm5hbDowOjE=","tid":1645,"in_init_tree":false},"parent":{"exec_id":"aXAtMTkyLTE2OC04OS02NC51cy13ZXN0LTIuY29tcHV0ZS5pbnRlcm5hbDowOjE=","pid":1,"uid":0,"cwd":"/","binary":"/usr/lib/systemd/systemd","arguments":"--switched-root --system --deserialize=32","flags":"procFS auid rootcwd","start_time":"2025-09-05T19:07:06.433217108Z","auid":4294967295,"parent_exec_id":"aXAtMTkyLTE2OC04OS02NC51cy13ZXN0LTIuY29tcHV0ZS5pbnRlcm5hbDoxOjA=","tid":1,"in_init_tree":false},"source_ip":"192.168.89.64","source_port":38106,"destination_ip":"192.168.88.89","destination_port":3000,"sock_cookie":"18446462614959565760","destination_pod":{"namespace":"tetragon","name":"tetragon-grafana-77b4f6f864-tjl29","pod_labels":{"app.kubernetes.io/instance":"tetragon","app.kubernetes.io/name":"grafana","app.kubernetes.io/version":"12.0.1","helm.sh/chart":"grafana-9.2.2","pod-template-hash":"77b4f6f864"},"workload":"tetragon-grafana","workload_kind":"Deployment"},"protocol":"TCP"},"node_name":"ip-192-168-89-64.us-west-2.compute.internal","time":"2025-11-04T23:32:55.401779Z","cluster_name":"k8s-goat-cluster","node_labels":{"alpha.eksctl.io/cluster-name":"k8s-goat-cluster","alpha.eksctl.io/nodegroup-name":"ng-a99d40b1","beta.kubernetes.io/arch":"arm64","beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type":"t4g.medium","beta.kubernetes.io/os":"linux","eks.amazonaws.com/capacityType":"ON_DEMAND","eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup":"ng-a99d40b1","eks.amazonaws.com/nodegroup-image":"ami-0339636baccc3c183","eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateId":"lt-0da0169006f2a7c39","eks.amazonaws.com/sourceLaunchTemplateVersion":"1","failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region":"us-west-2","failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone":"us-west-2c","k8s.io/cloud-provider-aws":"16c540d8ecc5192189b6444fb194814b","kubernetes.io/arch":"arm64","kubernetes.io/hostname":"ip-192-168-89-64.us-west-2.compute.internal","kubernetes.io/os":"linux","node.kubernetes.io/instance-type":"t4g.medium","topology.k8s.aws/zone-id":"usw2-az3","topology.kubernetes.io/region":"us-west-2","topology.kubernetes.io/zone":"us-west-2c"}}

Required Output Fields

  • dest_ip

  • pod_name

  • pod_namespace

  • cluster_name

  • node_name


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