<div dir="ltr"><div>Well. 20 suricata engines (at different locations), will generate alot of logs. Sure, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is free, and Splunk can index alot of stuff (as long as you pay). But i think that the problem here (seeing that you are talking about so many log locations) is now what technical solution to gather the logs. But think of all the coorelation, aggregation and data-enrichment that these solutions are providing... None? To futher demonstrate my point; How are you going to hande thousands and tens of thousands of events (http, dns, smtp, alerts) per second? What is relevant, what is not?<br></div><div><br></div>TL;DR version: From one to a handfull of suricata instances with low bandwith you can manage this through a simple ELK/Splunk setup. After that, in my profesional oppinion something more has to be done. Ex: an MSSP or a SSP (kinda new, but Siem Solutions Provider).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-27 22:39 GMT+02:00 Leonard Jacobs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ljacobs@netsecuris.com" target="_blank">ljacobs@netsecuris.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/_Logstash_Kibana_and_Suricata_JSON_output" target="_blank">https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/_Logstash_Kibana_and_Suricata_JSON_output</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://github.com/pevma/Suricata-Logstash-Templates" target="_blank">https://github.com/pevma/Suricata-Logstash-Templates</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Or if you program and you want a customized application, you can write code to enter fast.log into a database then write a front end to the database to display the data.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org" target="_blank">oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org" target="_blank">oisf-users-bounces@lists.openinfosecfoundation.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Saxena, Samiksha<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2015 12:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> oisf-users<br><b>Subject:</b> [Oisf-users] Suricata Logs<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Hi, <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I will have more than 20 Suricata engines, where each suricata engine will generate logs based on rules. I want to collect all the logs at one common place from each suricata engine. How should I achieve this?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Also, what is the value of the logs files and how often the logs are generated?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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