[Oisf-users] Adding fields to Suricata EVE file?

Jason Ish jason.ish at oisf.net
Mon Sep 23 17:00:38 UTC 2019


Hi Champ,

On 2019-09-23 10:55 a.m., Champ Clark III wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to add a field to the Suricata EVE file without code
> modifications?  For example,   let's say I want to add an EVE field of
> "sensor_location" with a value of "Jacksonville_Florida",  how would I
> do this?  

No, there is nothing built-in to do this. However, the idea of being
able to statically add some fields isn't a bad one.

For the example you suggest above, the configuration file does have the
"sensor-name" value which will show up in the eve-log as "host" which
might be useful.

Jason



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