[Oisf-users] Rsyslog suppressed messages from suricata

[Michał Purzyński]

Can you share you suricata.yml? Ideally Suricata should not write events to
syslog, eve-json is best used for that. Take a look here to disable the
syslog output

https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-4.1.4/output/syslog-alerting-comp.html

And here to enable the eve-json

https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-4.1.4/output/eve/index.html

We use syslog-ng to pick up messages from the JSON file and ship them to
SIEM.



On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:02 AM <craig at reswob10.net> wrote:

>
> Hi, new to suricata.  I have a new install on CentOS 7 running rsyslog
> 8.24.0-34.el7 and I have suricata 4.1.4
>
>
> My problem is it appears rsyslog is blocking writing of events to
> /var/log/messages because I see no suricata logs, but many of these entries:
>
> journal: Suppressed 13475 messages from /system.slice/suricata.service
>
> (the number of suppressed messages changes, but the main message stays the
> same)
>
>
> Is there a particular area of my config I should look at to tweak to fix
> this? Does this mean I should migrate to a server with more CPU and/or RAM?
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
>
>
> My other question is this: is there a way to search the archives?  I went
> to https://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-users/ but I
> didn't see a search capability....
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