[Oisf-users] Description of Suricata Statistics

Andreas Herz andi at geekosphere.org
Tue Nov 15 22:33:06 UTC 2016


On 15/11/16 at 17:21, Charles DeVoe wrote:
> Next, in the Suricata stats file there are many counters/values.  Some
> of them are intuitively obvious as to what they are (almost).  Is
> there someplace where there is a description of what all of these
> values are measuring and how they are measured? 

In the code :) But yes we might want to add a description to the docs as
well.

> I have an environment with 150 sensors all measuring 150 unique
> networks all with different hardware.  My objective is to create an
> application or script that will examine these values to give me a
> score on how well the sensor is performing.  I intend to include CPU,
> Memory, and Network utilization as well as examine the settings in the
> YAML file.

I'm not sure what you mean with "examine the settings in the YAML file",
could you explain what you're thinking about?

-- 
Andreas Herz



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