[Oisf-users] Suricata's http-log

Martin Holste mcholste at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 13:56:27 UTC 2012


Use wc -l to count the log lines for both.  httpry should be double.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Manev <petermanev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Is there any way that you could compare the two logs by the ways of
> scripting/bashing ? - if Suri and httpry are running at the same time (maybe
> just 10 min time span)?
>
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Peter Bates <peter.bates at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
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>> Hello again all
>>
>> On 29/03/2012 15:14, Victor Julien wrote:
>> >> I'm trying to avoid just using logrotate to move the file and
>> >> then restarting Suricata to pick up the change - if at all
>> >> possible.
>> >
>> > You can use the trick described here:
>> > https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/265#note-4
>>
>> Thanks for the advice - and also Martin's suggestion that syslog
>> support for http-log might be useful.
>>
>> I've been running httpry up until recently - and generally manage a
>> logfile from that of around 700-800Mb an hour, dropping to 200-300Mb
>> at quiet times.
>>
>> Just testing with the Suricata http-log I've ended up with a 7Mb
>> logfile from 1pm-2pm (BST).
>>
>> Httpry does also log the HTTP responses so you could argue the log
>> should be double the size - but there seems a big difference here
>> between the two.
>>
>> - --
>> Peter Bates
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> Peter Manev
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