# Where could I find all fields content in event.action? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-security\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718 "2022-06-21T06:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shadow\_CHN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shadow_chn/32/107538_2.png) [@Shadow\_CHN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadow_CHN)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/1 "2022-06-21T06:36:37Z")
field `event.action` can be found in Discover and Security module, my question is where can I find a document explains `event.action` includes how many and what actions? Like `Winlogbeat\module\security\ingest\security.yml`, explains every Windows Security events. ---
**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/2 "2022-06-21T14:42:07Z")
Here is a list of the ECS fields and a short description of each: [Event Fields | Elastic Common Schema (ECS) Reference [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-event.html#_event_field_details) Specifically, for `event.action`, it lists the following: > The action captured by the event. > This describes the information in the event. It is more specific than `event.category`. Examples are `group-add`, `process-started`, `file-created`. The value is normally defined by the implementer. > type: keyword > example: `user-password-change` ---
**Author:** ![Shadow\_CHN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shadow_chn/32/107538_2.png) [@Shadow\_CHN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadow_CHN)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/3 "2022-06-22T01:52:12Z")
Appreciate for reply. I've read this list before, it helped me to understand definitions and functions of each fields. But my question is, is there a document focus on describing `event.action`, like what else actions besides `user-password-change` ? ---
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/4 "2022-06-22T02:15:06Z")
> [@Shadow\_CHN](#): > > But my question is, is there a document focus on describing `event.action`, like what else actions besides `user-password-change` ? There is no such document as the value of `event.action` can be anything. As explained in the documentation already linked. > This describes the information in the event. It is more specific than `event.category`. Examples are `group-add`, `process-started`, `file-created`. **The value is normally defined by the implementer** So, the values for `event.action` on an specific event is choose by the team or person who implemented the parse for that specific event, in the case of Filebeat modules that creates the `event.action` fields, there probably some internal discussion in the team to choose which values will be used, or maybe someone from the community contributed to a Filebeat module and choose some values for `event.action`. If you are parse some custom log, or something that does not have a Filebeat module, and you want to populate the `event` fields, like `event.action` you will need to choose the values you want to use for each event. For example, I had some parse for the Cloudflare WAF logs, those logs have a field named `Action`, so I use the value of this field as the value for `event.action`, and those values could be something like `block`, `log`, `bypass`, `challenged` etc. The fields that have some fixed values that you should always try to use them, are the categorization event fields, `event.type`, `event.kind`, `event.category` and `event.outcome`. Those fields have some limitations on the [values that you can use](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-category-field-values-reference.html) in them, if you want to integrated your data well with the Security module, for example, the `event.outcome` field should have only the values `failure`, `success` or `unknown`. ---
**Author:** ![Shadow\_CHN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shadow_chn/32/107538_2.png) [@Shadow\_CHN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadow_CHN)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/5 "2022-06-22T03:28:56Z")
Appreciate. I got it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-could-i-find-all-fields-content-in-event-action/307718/6 "2022-07-20T03:29:43Z")
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