[Bro] Couple elasticsearch questions

[James Lay]

On 2014-07-23 09:40, Seth Hall wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 11:10 AM, James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> 1.  Is there a proper way to set which logs to send to elasticsearch
>> that I can use in local.bro instead of modifying
>> logs-to-elasticsearch.bro?
>
> Yes, there are settings that you can change.  In local.bro, you can
> do this...
>
> @load tuning/logs-to-elasticsearch
> redef LogElasticSearch::send_logs += {
> 	Conn::LOG,
> 	HTTP::LOG
> };
>
> That will only send the conn.log and http.log to ElasticSearch.
>
>> 2.  The docs say to add @load tuning/logs-to-elasticsearch in
>> local.bro...how can I send bro data to a remote elasticsearch server
>> instead?
>
> redef LogElasticSearch::server_host = "1.2.3.4";
>
>> 3.  And lastly, as I look at the Brownian demo, I see that all the
>> fields are correctly laid out..was this down with Brownian, or with
>> elasticsearch itself?
>
> Could you explain what you mean by "correctly laid out"?
>
>> I'm trying to get bro data into logstash direct, instead of using 
>> log
>> files.  Thanks for any insight.
>
> Cool!  With the current mechanism, you could encounter overload
> situations that cause Bro to grow in memory until you run out of
> memory.  We're slowly working on extensions to the ES writer to make
> it write to a disk backed queuing system so that things should remain
> more stable over time.  I am interested to hear any experiences you
> have with this though.
>
>   .Seth

Thanks for the responses Gents...they do help.  So...for example 
here...I have snort currently going to logstash.  In order to match 
fields I have this:

filter {
         grok {
                 match => [ "message", "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:date} 
%{IPORHOST:device} %{WORD:snort}\[%{INT:snort_pid}\]\: 
\[%{INT:gid}\:%{INT:sid}\:%{INT:rev}\] %{DATA:ids_alert} 
\[Classification\: %{DATA:ids_classification}\] \[Priority\: 
%{INT:ids_priority}\] \{%{WORD:proto}\} 
%{IP:ids_src_ip}\:%{INT:ids_src_port} \-\> 
%{IP:ids_dst_ip}\:%{INT:ids_dst_port}" ]
}

to match:

Jul 23 09:44:46 gateway snort[13205]: [1:2500084:3305] ET COMPROMISED 
Known Compromised or Hostile Host Traffic TCP group 43 [Classification: 
Misc Attack] [Priority: 2] {TCP} 61.174.51.229:6000 -> x.x.x.x:22

I'm guessing I'm going to have to create something like the above grok 
for each bro log file....which...is going to be a hoot ;)  I was hoping 
that work was already done somewhere...and I think I had it working at 
one time for conn.log that I posted here some time ago.  Thanks 
again...after looking at the Brownian source I think I'm going to have 
to just bite the bullet and generate the grok lines.

James