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Tag: filebeat

  • Filebeat Custom Field Processing for ELK

    Filebeat Custom Field Processing for ELK

    I had a recent project at work, where I needed to parse a load balancer log. The interesting part of the project was to capture data that was being added to the log. This short post will cover what I did to capture the data and render it in Kibana / ELK. If you have…

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  • Suricata + ELK [Installation]

    Suricata + ELK [Installation]

    Technically, this install should be described as: Suricata / Filebeat + ElasticSearch/Kibana but it makes for a poor headline. Architecture In a multi-suricata server environment, the ElasticSearch Server is paired with the Kibana GUI. Individual Suricata installs are setup with Filebeat agents on separate points in the network(s). Filebeat sends each Suricata machine’s log data…

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