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@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ ECS has been scoped to accommodate a wide variety of events, spanning:
   Logstash, Elasticsearch ingest node, all of the above, or none of the above.
 - *Consumers*: whether consumed by API, Kibana queries, dashboards, apps, or other means.
 
+[float]
+=== New to ECS?
+
+If you're new to ECS and looking for an introduction to its benefits and examples of the
+core concepts, <<ecs-getting-started>> is a great place to start.
 
 [float]
 === My events don't map with ECS

docs/using-getting-started.asciidoc

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+[[ecs-getting-started]]
+=== Getting Started
+
+ECS enables and encourages users to normalize event data in order
+to better analyze, visualize, and correlate their events. Collected events
+can be normalized at ingest time, consistently searched across indices,
+and visualized predictably.
+
+Note that when adopting an Elastic solution, such as https://www.elastic.co/observability[Observability]
+or https://www.elastic.co/security[Security], all events will map to ECS out of the box. Elastic
+provides an extensive set of https://www.elastic.co/integrations[integrations] to simplify
+ingesting your data sources.
+
+If you rely on custom data pipelines and/or building content around specific needs,
+ECS can still help to alleviate the challenges of searching, analyzing, and visualizing
+across your data. Let's see how using a common schema can simplify the search experience,
+and then take a look at how an event's contents can be mapped to ECS field sets.
+
+[float]
+==== Simplified Search
+
+With ECS defining a normalized schema across all of your data sources, querying
+against those sources is simplified. Consider searching for a particular source IP
+address prior to adopting ECS. All the various data sources and their field mappings
+would need to be considered in your query:
+
+[source,sh]
+-----------
+src:10.42.42.42 OR client_ip:10.42.42.42 OR apache.access.remote_ip:10.42.42.42 OR
+context.user.ip:10.42.42.42 OR src_ip:10.42.42.42
+-----------
+
+With all sources mapped to ECS, the query becomes much simpler:
+
+[source,sh]
+-----------
+source.ip:10.42.42.42
+-----------
+
+Not only does this simplify writing queries, but saved queries shared with other
+users become much more obvious. To gain familiarity with ECS fields, you can also
+take a look at the <<ecs-field-reference>> section.
+
+[float]
+==== Unified Visualizations
+
+With normalized data from different data sources, building insightful visualizations
+across sources is simple. From a single, centralized dashboard, events from web servers,
+IDS/IPS devices, and firewalls can be aggregated and visualized, and enhanced with drill-downs,
+and pivoting for delving into deeper investigations. Centralized monitoring of diverse data
+sources is straightforward with normalized ECS data.
+
+[role="screenshot"]
+image:images/ecs-getting-started-dashboard.png[Simplify visualization using ECS]
+
+
+[float]
+==== Translating Data Sources
+
+To align events to ECS, some sort of parsing will usually be necessary
+to transform the contents of the original event into the relevant ECS fields. Depending on
+how you've designed your Elastic Stack data ingestion pipelines, the amount of work to parse
+your events will vary.
+
+For example, an Apache web server log event:
+
+[source,sh]
+-----------
+10.42.42.42 - - [15/Jul/2020:20:48:32 +0000] "GET /content HTTP/1.1" 200 2571 "-"
+"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
+Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36"
+-----------
+
+In order to map this event to ECS, the contents of the event is associated with the
+appropriate ECS fields.
+
+[options="header"]
+|=====
+| Field Name | Value
+
+// ===============================================================
+
+| @timestamp
+|  `2020-07-15T20:20:48.000Z`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| event.original
+| 10.42.42.42 - - [15/Jul/2020:20:48:32 +0000] "GET /content HTTP/1.1" 200 2571 "-"
+"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
+Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| http.request.method
+| GET
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| http.response.body.bytes
+| 2571
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| http.response.status_code
+| 200
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| http.version
+| 1.1
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| message
+| GET /content HTTP/1.1" 200 2571 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| source.address
+| 10.42.42.42
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| source.ip
+| 10.42.42.42
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| url.original
+| `/content`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.original
+| `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36`
+
+|=====
+
+Beyond extracting values that are present in the original event, we also populate
+other fields to provide additional context about the event itself.
+
+* `ecs.version`: States which version of ECS the ingest pipeline was developed against.
+* `event.dataset` and `event.module`: Answers "where is this event from" and are expected to have a
+  hardcoded value per pipeline, per source.
+* `event.kind`, `event.category`, `event.type`, and `event.outcome`: The https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-category-field-values-reference.html[categorization fields]
+  should also be hardcoded using knowledge of each type of event the source emits. The contents of
+  these fields are limited to the specifically allowed values detailed in the ECS documentation.
+
+[options="header"]
+|=====
+| Field Name | Value
+
+// ===============================================================
+
+| ecs.version
+| 1.5.0
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| event.module
+| apache
+
+// ===============================================================
+
+| event.dataset
+| apache.access
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| event.kind
+| event
+
+// ===============================================================
+
+| event.category
+| [ "web", "access" ]
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| event.outcome
+| success
+
+|=====
+
+Lastly, existing field values can be interpreted or enriched using a processor, with the results
+populating additional fields in the final event.
+
+* The `user_agent` processor extracts details from the original user agent string, `user_agent.original`.
+* IP fields like `source.ip` can provide enrichment using the `geopip` processor to add information about the
+  location and autonomous system number (ASN) associated with an IP address.
+* The `registered domain` processor reads a field containing a hostname and writes the registered domain to
+  another field
+* Event collectors, such as https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/beats-reference.html[Beats], can enrich
+  each event with metadata from the machine's hosting provider (cloud) and/or from the host machine (host).
+
+Here are some examples of additional fields processed by metadata or parser processors.
+
+[options="header"]
+|=====
+| Field Name | Value | Processor
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.architecture
+| x86_64
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.hostname
+| mbp.example.com
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.ip
+| [ "192.168.1.100" ]
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.os.family
+| darwin
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.os.kernel
+| 19.4.0
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.os.name
+| Mac OS X
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| host.os.version
+| 10.15.4
+| `add_host_metadata`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.name
+| Chrome
+| `user_agent`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.os.full
+| Mac OS X 10.15.4
+| `user_agent`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.os.name
+| Mac OS X
+| `user_agent`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.os.version
+| 10.15.4
+| `user_agent`
+
+// ==============================================================
+
+| user_agent.version
+| 83.0.4103.106
+| `user_agent`
+
+|=====
+
+[float]
+==== Field Mapping Reference Guides
+
+We've covered at a high level how to map your events to ECS. Now if you'd like your events to render well in the Elastic
+solutions, check out the reference guides below to learn more about each:
+
+* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logs/guide/current/logs-fields-reference.html[Logs UI fields reference]
+* https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/master/siem-field-reference.html[Elastic Security fields reference]

docs/using.asciidoc

@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
 ECS fields follow a series of guidelines, to ensure a consistent and predictable
 feel, across various use cases.
 
+If you're new to ECS and would like an introduction on implementing and using
+the schema, check out the <<ecs-getting-started>> guide.
+
 Whether you're trying to recall a field name, implementing a solution that
 follows ECS, or proposing a change to  the schema, the <<ecs-guidelines>> and
 <<ecs-conventions>> will help get you there.
 
 If you're wondering how to best capture event details that don't map to existing
-ECS fields, head over to <<ecs-custom-fields-in-ecs>>
+ECS fields, head over to <<ecs-custom-fields-in-ecs>>.
 
+include::using-getting-started.asciidoc[][]
 include::using-guidelines.asciidoc[]
 include::using-conventions.asciidoc[]
 include::using-custom-fields.asciidoc[]