![]() winlogbeat.shutdown_timeout : 30s # A list of entries (called dictionaries in YAML) that specify which event logs to monitor. # Define the output (we use Logstash for Graylog) output.logstash : hosts : - ":XXXX" # Cleanup path : null # The amount of time to wait for all events to be published when shutting down. Then I found Winlogbeat from elastic!Īnd with Winlogbeat I was able to create a universal config that I can initially deploy to all Windows based servers! Yes, there are still some tweaks that you might want for each system (based on the role and use case of the system), but the universal approach worked very well for me.įortunately, my mate had a lot of tips for me, so it was easy for me to create an initial setup!Īt the same time, I started a collaboration with for his use case Winlogbeat was the perfect match: Forward Windows event logs to a new Logstash instance.Īfter a lot of engineering and testing, I created the following universal Winlogbeat configuration: I couldn’t establish a universal “one size fits all” configuration approach. I used the NXLog Community Edition for a long time to do that! And NXLog did an excellent job! But there was on drawback: NXLog required me to use a dedicated configuration for each system, what I did with included. ![]() But I also have some Windows systems, and I want to have the event logs collected and shipped to my Graylog server. I collect and ship logfiles from many systems, like Linux servers and network elements, which is easy with Syslog. In our next article, we’ll dive into setting up Streams, pipelines, and more.HowTo Ship Windows event logs with Winlogbeat How I switched from NXLog to Winlogbeat for event log shipping Feb 25, 2021Īs I mentioned before, I use use Graylog to centrally capture and store many logfiles. ![]() You should now see the the different JSON values being mapped to their respective fields. Afterwards, switch back to graylog WebUI and go back to the Search dashboard. Switch back to you Ubuntu container and re-issue our curl command to generate some more traffic. Once you load a message from the input, you’ll want to scroll down to the ‘message’ field and select a new JSON extractor.Īfter you’ve clicked on ‘JSON’ from the drop down menu, scroll to the bottom of the page and after giving it a title, click ‘Create extractor’. Then click on ‘Get Started’ button and load a message to work with. ![]() Go ahead navigate back to ‘System’->’Inputs’ and click on ‘Manage extractors’ for the input you just created. We’ll want to configure extractors in order to map the JSON message string coming in from filebeat to actual fields in graylog. You’ll notice however, the message field is one big jumble of JSON text. If we did everything right, we should be able to switch back to the Graylog WebUI and click on ‘Search’ at the top and see some messages coming in. Go ahead and kick off an HTTP connection to generate some traffic for Suricata to see. systemctl enable suricata systemctl start suricata filebeat sed -i 's/LISTENMODE=nfqueue/LISTENMODE=pcap/g' /etc/default/suricataĪwesome, we’re ready to start things up. juju ssh apt-get install -y suricata filebeatīecause this is a demo and we’re in an unprivileged container, we’ll configure Suricata to use the good old pcap method for packet acquisition. We can see it did so here:Īll that’s left now is to login to the container and setup Suricata. Using the power of Juju, filebeat will automatically configure a graylog Input and start sending our Suricata logs from /var/log/suricata/eve.json to it. ![]() juju deploy ubuntuĭeploying charm juju add-relation filebeat:beats-host juju add-relation filebeat juju config filebeat logpath=/var/log/suricata/eve.json To do this, we’ll go ahead and launch a new lxd container using the Ubuntu and Filebeat charms, adding the Juju relations where necessary. Switching gears a bit, we need to go setup Suricata. You should see something like this: Logging into graylog. ![]()
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